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Shear wall -beam connections 2

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jp6637

Structural
Feb 12, 2009
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Hi,
I'm trying to design a five story apartment building with a RC moment frame for the vertical load and an RC shear wall for the lateral loads. It has one and and two way slabs on beams. Is it a bad practice to have the beams frame into the shear wall (both in the plane of the wall and perpendicular to it)? If it is ok then where can I find rebar details for the connection?
 
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Did you intend to post a picture? Your link goes to the reply screen.

I don't know of an argument against framing beams into walls. It is done all the time.
 
No, I made a mistake, there is no picture
 
Just make sure the shearwall steel is continuous through the wall. Might get kinda tight, so a good detail of placement will be needed. In plane condition will be the worst case here.

Mike McCann
MMC Engineering
 
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