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    Special Masonry Shear Wall Reinforcement Requirements

    I have an 8" special masonry shear wall with long, short windows (see attachment for specifics), and I'm not sure the proper way to interpret the code requirements for the reinforcement. TMS 402-13/ACI 530-13, section 7.3.2.6 states that I can read this code provision in one of three ways...
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    ASCE 7-10 Redundancy Factor for 2-story X

    A colleague and I were discussing this the other day. For the redundancy factor, ρ (rho) per ASCE 7-10, §12.3.4.2, option (b) states that if the SFRS consists of two bays of seismic force-resisting framing on each side of the structure, you can use a ρ = 1.0. Consider a steel OCBF configured in...

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