Shear Wall Panel Design

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Shear wall panel design.

Sheathing type and thickness sheathing nailing size and spacing chord design tension and compression collector design tension and comp. Note that the 2006 ibc section 2305 3 9 allows for wind conditions the shear capacity of the gypsum sheathing to be added to the wood structural panel capacity. Three shear wall types design considerations. 2306 3 1 2306 3 2 or 2306 3 3 shall be permitted.

A shear wall is an rcc structural member used in a frame structure to resist the lateral forces develop by winds or seismic forces generated due to the earth quicks. In the high rise buildings we mainly use these walls. The required minimum length of a shear wall panel generally ranges from 4 to 8 of wall with no openings. Wood structural panel shear walls are permitted to resist horizontal forces using the allowable capacities where panels are fastened to framing members with staples requirements and limitations of af pa sdpws shall be met and the allowable shear values set forth in table 2306 3.

These are the vertical member of the building structures. Two weeks ago i had the chance to present to the young members group of the structural engineering association of metro washington on the topic of multi story light frame shear wall design with all of the large firms in the d c. Area it wasn t a big surprise to find out that only about one third of the group had experience with light frame shear wall design.