Shear Wall-Steel Beam Connection 1

[Elindio1]

I'm designing a steel building on which steel braces are used for lateral on one direction and shear walls (elevator and stair shaft)on the other. How do I connect the building to the shear walls core. I have seen it with a steel plate with welded Nelson Studs casted inside the core. After the cores are cast, steel plates are welded to the plate already anchored to the concrete and connected to the steel beams. Is this the typical way of connecting core to the building..
Thanks

 

[msquared48]

Yes - very typical.

Mike McCann
MMC Engineering

 

[msquared48]

Another thought though. If the steel beam is a drag link to the concrete wall, you may need to use rebar instead of Nelson Studs to develop the force into the shear wall.

Mike McCann
MMC Engineering

 

[Elindio1]

Yes, it is a drag link, so i'll have to designed similar to a base plate with uplift. The rebar has to develope the required tension drag that will be applied to the plate.
Thanks for your input...