Tek-Tips is the largest IT community on the Internet today!
Members share and learn making Tek-Tips Forums the best source of peer-reviewed technical information on the Internet!
-
Congratulations MintJulep on being selected by the Eng-Tips community for having the most helpful posts in the forums last week. Way to Go!
Turn Buckle and Rod Design
- Thread starter kingpenn3
- Start date
Kingpenn3:
You said....., “The loading on this system is approx. 20 kips. The system is going in a school gym behind glass curtain walls.” That being the case, you may want to pay some special attention to bldg. drift up at the top, under load, as this relates to the rigidity of any glass and glass curtain wall system. Tie rods allow a fair amount of movement of their upper connection points before they pick up their design load, due to slack take-up, due to geometric and stress/strain length changes and this can have detrimental effects on any rigid cladding system.
You said....., “The loading on this system is approx. 20 kips. The system is going in a school gym behind glass curtain walls.” That being the case, you may want to pay some special attention to bldg. drift up at the top, under load, as this relates to the rigidity of any glass and glass curtain wall system. Tie rods allow a fair amount of movement of their upper connection points before they pick up their design load, due to slack take-up, due to geometric and stress/strain length changes and this can have detrimental effects on any rigid cladding system.
- Status
