Shear transfer across a STC rated wall

[apsix]

There are double stud with cavity acoustic walls in a multi-unit residential timber framed building we are designing.
Due to lack of bracing walls we need to share the lateral loads between adjacent units.
Is there a recognised method to transfer the shear load across the wall without comprimising the acoustic performance too much?

 

[DaveAtkins]

Not that I know of. Each half of the double stud wall can take shear from the diaphragm on its side, at the floor levels. At the roof, you can position a roof truss over one half of the wall or the other half, and get the lateral load into just one side, but I don't know how this can be done at the floor levels.

DaveAtkins

 

[apsix]

Thanks Dave. As you point out shear transfer shouldn't be required.

What I really meant is transferring perpendicular load across the double stud wall at floor diaphragm level, while minimising acoustic bridging.