From the deck into the drag strut. The building suffered a partial roof collapse (100ft x 100ft for a 300 x 300 foot square building). The remaining building is L shaped. The challenge is to take what was an interior wall and make it a shear wall. I have added wind bracing cables to the...
I need to add a drag strut connector to an existing beam perpendicular to existing steel roof joists at an interior condition below existing decking. The question is how to fit the drag strut connector below the deck and weld it with out removing the deck. Ideas are a flexible shape like a Z...
