AISI S100 Chapter F has criteria to evaluate cold formed steel testing to come up with an appropriate safety factor based on the data variability and the type of element tested. Anyone know if there is any thing like that for hot-rolled steel? I have a client who comes up with some unusual...
For whatever reason the regions aren't showing up right. Say Region 1 is the full wall heights, region 2 from the top of door to the base, and region 3 was just the height of the window.
To make sure I am clear, I have attached a marked up version of NEHRP's provided elevation from their "Seismic Design of Special Reinforced Masonry Shear Walls: A Guide for Practicing Engineers".
Note that I am using ASD design.
So, if I were specifying reinforcing in this wall, which length...
sandman21, ACI 530-11 defines "piers" as isolated elements. I don't think the referenced section applies here. Note that ACI 530-13 has gotten rid of the old "pier" definition and now has piers defined as portions of walls between openings. The commentary says that piers are only used in...
ACI 530-11 Sec 1.18.3.2.6 specifies the minimum spacing of vertical and horizontal reinforcing in Special Reinforced Masonry Shear Walls as 1/3 the Length or Height of the wall.
With single story masonry warehouses the walls are long and are at times interrupted with overhead doors, man doors...
