Please could anyone comment.
Assuming that a vertical pressure vessel on a skirt on its own foundations is classified as a “non-building structure” covered by 1622, where in IBC 2000 does the over strength factor Omega_O apply ? NEHRP 2000 Paragraph 14.7.3.3.a makes quite clear and logical...
Please could I ask for an opinion.
IBC 2000 1602 Defines an EBF as
"A diagonally braced frame in which at least one end of each brace frames into a beam a short distance from a beam-column or from another diagonal brace".
If a brace was eccentric at both ends, would it still be...