When do I have to have a seismic joint?
I have wood apartment all around the core concrete parking garage, do I have to have the seismic joint between the apartment and garage? Please advise. Thanks.
I don't see the chance of D.3.3.4 will happen for most of post-installed anchors. Then the choice will be to use either D.3.3.5 or D.3.3.6. I'm a little bit confused about the attachment ductile yielding if I use D.3.3.5. What's the definition of that?
The attachment, not the anchor bolt, not...
I'm a little bit confused that why the eq.18-1 (for nonconstrainted case) limits the embedment depth of 12'? Does that mean the max. embedment depth is only 12'?
If look further in the notes area of 1805.7.2.2, there is no limit for the embedment depth d for constrained case, why is that...
RD6.2.4 indicates that a group of anchor is influenced by 3 or more edges where any edge distance is less than 1.5*Ca1. My question is, when both Ca1 and Ca2 are huge, say Ca1 is 20 times of hef, however Ca2 in bothe sides are 10 times of hef, shall we strictly call this case as 3 edges...
