I am designing a structure with 16 foot high sheet pile walls on three sides and a concrete/steel pan deck diaphragm closing the top. Is there a reference with values one could use to estimate the strength of the walls as shear walls, acting to resist lateral loads in the plane of the wall...
Does anyone have a good reference for calculating or estimating the design load due to snow sliding off an upper roof onto a structure below?
The ASCE 7-05 reference, 7.9, for loads due to sliding snow, severely underestimates the load in my case. This was for snow falling 28 feet from an...
