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Concrete/wood building shear walls
Can I separate the base shear like that? Or is there some type of ductile connection that would allow me to justify that? EIT- mytchell
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- Forum: Moment Frame & Shear Wall engineering
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Concrete/wood building shear walls
It is for a secure data center, so in some ways similar to a bank vault. It will have a single doorway and shares two walls with the stick frame portion of the building. I would sure be nice to find separate base shears for each part of the building, but I'm not sure if I can justify that or...- mytchell
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- Forum: Moment Frame & Shear Wall engineering
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Concrete/wood building shear walls
I'm working with a building design which has a large concrete room with 12 inch thick concrete walls connected to a wood frame building adjacent to it. My problem is that the seismic load is quite large for the whole building together with the weight of the concrete, resulting in a very high...- mytchell
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