I am designing a braced frame in a freezer warehouse building (the building will be built at ambient temperatures, and then brought down to -10 degrees. It's an ordinary concentrically braced frame (R=3.25, design category D). The building is approximately 300 feet long. The braced frame has...
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I am designing a built-up "cruciform" column as part of a rigid frame (using R=3.0) to resist wind and seimic loads. I am uncertain of how to design the weld of the WT webs to the web of the continuous wide flange column. I am thicking about doing a shear flow calculation for the...
I am working on an expansion to a steel framed freezer building. The freezer building is a rectangular box, approxmately 40' tall, in seismic design category D. Because of thermal issues, I am investigating tying the buildings together (instead of providing a seismic separation per code)...
