Hello. I am resurrecting this thread as the previous posts about the WoodWorks Shearwalls software is a few years old. I do small commercial and residential design (mostly wood framed buildings) and recently discovered the Shearwalls software. Currently I use Revit for building modeling, and...
Thank you so very much. Your explanation of wind as far as internal pressure (positive and negative) and how this relates to windward and leeward pressures really helps a lot! I also appreciate your calling attention to the minimum wind load cases (which I had not ever looked at) and the minimum...
Great. Thanks for the confirmation. I regret that I find the current wind design to be so complicated and confusing. I truly do want to master wind design per the ASCE, but honestly miss the simplicity and efficiency of the old UBC wind design equation which was maybe not that sophisticated but...
Thanks for your reply. Maybe I misspoke when I said that GCpi = 0. Maybe what I should have said was that for an enclosed building, with a simple diaphragm the internal pressures cancel out for the walls. Is that correct? So for this type of simple diaphragm building that is enclosed, the wind...
I mostly work with small scale construction, rarely encountering buildings over two stories tall. I would like to know which wind design methodology people use and in particular why. Does one method tend to give you more conservative, or more accurate results over the others, again when...
I work with mostly small scale construction - some commercial, and a lot of residential. We primarily refer to the ACI 318-11 for concrete code. Recently I came across the ACI 332-14 & the ACI 332.1 R-06 and I wondered if the information they contained might be more applicable to the residential...
MSQUARED48 - Thanks again. You are correct - per the footnotes in the SDPWS T4.3A footnote 6 calls for staggered panel joints when nail spacing is less than 6" o.c. and panels are applied to both sides of the wall. Otherwise, as I now understand it, panels are not required to be staggered...
msquared48 - vertical application makes a lot of sense, (in this case they are interested in reducing the amount of blocking and thus thermal bridging), but yes the walls are calling for blocking.
Is there any code requirement for the panels to be staggered when applied vertically? Thanks!!
Do the values in the 2008 SDPWS Table 4.3A Nominal Unit Shear Capacities for Wood-Frame Shear Walls vary if your sheathing runs vertically instead of horizontally? The shear walls I am considering are framed at 24"o.c. and sheathing is spec'd as 15/32 APA Rated Sheathing. I haven't found any...
JAE - I am a huge fan of Bluebeam.
I'm curious if you are using the Self-Signed digital signature option via Bluebeam (versus the Third-Party Certificate Authority).
I agree that that the issue is super annoying.
We use a similar workflow to what you have described, but as I understand it this way of doing things does not adhere to the requirements per the Oregon Administrative Rules - because the signature cannot be independent verified by a Certificate...
I work for a small civil/structural engineering firm (two and soon three people who are stamping drawings). I have been looking into the Oregon and Washington state requirements for digital signatures that accompany the stamp on a drawing set. I understand that a digital signature needs to be...
Does the ACI 318-08 15.7 minimum 6" depth of concrete over your reinforcing for footings apply to continuous spread footings? 15.1 clearly states that the requirement applies to isolated (pad) footings, but I'm wondering if it also applies to a typical continuous footings at, say, the perimeter...
