All, it looks like the key component I was missing was the blocking and its effect in distributing the lateral forces from the chords to the shear walls. The end truss connections actually will not be experiencing the wind lateral load. Instead, I will design them for the seismic force in the...
Thank you all for your helpful responses. From this discussion, I am in agreement that in theory, the roof diaphragm should transfer the force to the gable end walls. My main question now is how is this force transfer facilitated (ie through what connections?).
The end gable walls are masonry...
Hi XR250,
Thanks for your response. In general, I am still concerned about the load path to the shear walls and how lateral force is distributed to the connections and the shear walls.
As you suggested, I did a quick and simple hand calc for two different scenarios in which I think the...
Hello, I have several questions about a connection I am designing.
The building is a one story CMU (10m x 30m x 4.5m high) with steel roof trusses made from SHS Sections.
The steel trusses are modeled as simply supported, and the connection I am specifying is to weld the bottom truss chord to...
