I am designing a structure built with two wood double stud walls. The interior wall is load bearing. Would it be reasonable to assume that the gyp board could brace the studs out of plane? I am assuming I would have to spec a minimum panel size and connections.
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Hi,
Basic question:
I have a two story wood duplex with shearwalls. Below the main floor, for various reasons, I would like to use a cantilivered wood column system. I'm not quite sure how to combine the loads to get the correct base shear. At the moment, I am using:
V = Cs*W(upper flrs) +...
