Hi All,
We are working on an existing brownstone and are adding some additional backfill to the exterior of the front foundation wall, in turn increasing the soil loads on the wall. In going through the calc I am finding the wall is not close to working, even for the existing condition.
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Hi All,
I am designing a house in a 110mph, exposure C zone, so we are designing per the WFCM. As always we have specfied hold downs at the ends of shear walls for the architect. The architect has posed a question back to us, asking if we can get rid of the hold downs and increase the sill...
Hi All,
I have a project with a 2-story clear space, and as such have engineered triple LVL wind girts to span around the floor opening. This condition occurs at a corner, and therefore am left with a detail at the corner where each wind girt needs to transmit about 1400lbs of wind load to the...
I am wondering what others thoughts are on 30+ story coupled shear wall building systems and their design. Typically, we design these in ETABS using shell elements for the flat plates and shear walls. We have found that due to the stiffness of the floor plates, they can greatly impact the...
