Thank you for the responses. I am trying to analyze both cases, and take the worse case scenario for the design. As I have mentioned above, I found out about the shear distribution using flexible diaphram by finding tributary areas.
Now I am trying on rigid diaphram to see how much they differ...
I've been wondering about this all day...
Anyway, there are shear walls (timber) in one line that takes about 30% of shear and brace frame that takes about 30% in different line and another frame that takes about same in another line. (from flexible diaphram using tributary area)
To clarify, my...
I was hoping to get some advice on correct way to find shear distribution of timber walls along with steel brace frames and finding equivalent size of brace thickness.
Given the base shear, I assumed shear distribution from flexible diaphram and found equivalent thickness for brace frames by...
