Lateral system of CFS bearing wall building over Podium
Lateral system of CFS bearing wall building over Podium
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Hello All!
I am working on a 9 story CFS bearing wall building over 4 story concrete Podium in Washington DC metro area. The building is seismically governed in both directions. We are using Flat Strap braces at the upper levels and concrete shear walls below podium.
If I were to utilize two-stage analysis for the lateral system, I could reduce seismic story shears by about 25% compared to analyzing the entire building as one building. However, I am not sure how I could justify two-stage analysis without knowing building drifts and period for the upper portion of the building. This is because we are delegating the design of braced frames above to contractor’s specialty engineer.
What is the industry standard for this analysis? I would like not to penalize the superstructure lateral system, but not sure how I can avoid it. Any guidance and resources you could provide would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks,
I am working on a 9 story CFS bearing wall building over 4 story concrete Podium in Washington DC metro area. The building is seismically governed in both directions. We are using Flat Strap braces at the upper levels and concrete shear walls below podium.
If I were to utilize two-stage analysis for the lateral system, I could reduce seismic story shears by about 25% compared to analyzing the entire building as one building. However, I am not sure how I could justify two-stage analysis without knowing building drifts and period for the upper portion of the building. This is because we are delegating the design of braced frames above to contractor’s specialty engineer.
What is the industry standard for this analysis? I would like not to penalize the superstructure lateral system, but not sure how I can avoid it. Any guidance and resources you could provide would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks,
RE: Lateral system of CFS bearing wall building over Podium
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RE: Lateral system of CFS bearing wall building over Podium
Otherwise, you can either leave well enough alone and do the single stage analysis and the owner has to pay for 25% more building but your life is easier or you can you can go back to your client/the owner and say "for $X,XXX now, we can do a little more work and save you as much as $X,XXX,XXX later."
RE: Lateral system of CFS bearing wall building over Podium
1) Is the concrete structure lateral system walls or moment frames? If it's walls, how long on average?
2) On average, how long will your CFM walls be?
I love the two stage business and use it often on 2+4 story wood buildings. It produces economical results and is often more reflective of true behavior in my opinion.
Unfortunately, it's pretty difficult to get super accurate with this kind of thing even if you are not doing the delegated design stuff. In my opinion, however, high levels of accuracy are not required. Seismic is always rough stuff so I support the telling of a reasonable story and the strategic acceptance of a little risk.
Consider some of the tricky things that would have to go into an accurate assessment of relative periods etc:
1) Accounting for all of the non-lateral CFM walls.
2) Determining whether or not your concrete shear walls rock at their bases.
3) The gobs of approximation that go into long term concrete stiffness and deformation estimates.
4) Accounting for the fact that much of your CFM structure period estimate work will depend heavily on the shear wall base connections which will suffer from elongation, slip, and even meaningful vertical deformation of the transferring concrete structure in many cases.
5) Soil-structure interaction at your foundations.
I'd make reasonable estimates of the things that matter and then, if a rigid base model makes sense to you, let loose the dogs of war / strategic business risk. Successful, free market, private sector structural engineering practice requires some -- not insignificant -- boldness. Put it to work for you and yours.