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    4-Sided Open Face Wood Frame Diaphgram - Wind Design

    I am working on a project that is a 3 story wood framed multi-family building. The architect wants to use Zip-R sheathing on the exterior with no wood structural panels directly attached to the studs. If you're not familiar with the product it is 7/16 wood structural panel with rigid insulation...
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    Bottom Flange Loading of Perimeter Floor/Roof Beam

    I often work on building designs in which the exterior structural steel is hidden inside a metal stud wall. This means that the cladding system consists of a continuous metal stud wall spanning vertically between each floor. The metal studs below the beam are framed into the bottom flange of a...
  3. mtuhusky

    Cold-Formed Stud Compressive Strength

    Lately I've been trying to dive deeper into cold-formed steel design and so I've been combing very closely through the AISI S100-12 Manual. I'm working on calculating the compressive strength of a steel stud. Part 1: Am I correct in assuming that it is typical for load bearing steel studs with...
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    ASCE 7-10 Snow Load Drift Height

    When calculating the drift height and width per Section 7.7.1 I'm confused by this statement: "If this height exceeds hc, the drift width, w, shall equal 4hd2/hc and the drift height shall equal hc." So, what value of hd is used in the equation for w? The value calculated in Figure 7.9 OR the...
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    RISA 3D Report Footer

    Does anybody know of a way to omit the entire report footer in RISA 3D? I am using version 14.0 and I am trying to merge multiple reports together and I'd like to number all of the pages using a pdf editor.

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