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Offset wood shearwalls-omega factor

Thread starter seismiczone
Start date Nov 28, 2004

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Nov 28, 2004

seismiczone

Structural

I have a 3-story wood framed structure with offset shearwalls. Do I increase the lateral loads specific to the offset lines by 280% and then specify for unit shear values and holdowns? These values get to be very large by the time I get to the 1st floor. What happens if I'm offset vertically and horizontally - do I only use omega factor once? Can I tell plancheckers I'm offset 4 ft. or less and omega isn't used in this case? I'm aware of stress increases.