This webinar includes an overview of apa s free design tool the ftao calculator and explains how it can help engineers and code officials in the design implementation of ftao shear walls with a focus on asymmetric piers and multiple openings.
Shear wall panel design.
One of the key milestones that launched us down this path was the development of our first factory built wood shearwall the strong wall.
In structural engineering a shear wall is a vertical element of a seismic force resisting system that is designed to resist in plane lateral forces typically wind and seismic loads.
In the plywood the steel backed shear panel and sheet steel are used in the place of structural used plywood in the shear wall which is stronger to resist seismic pressure.
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.
These walls consist of the plywoods to distributes or transfer the shear forces.
Shear walls diaphragms when designing a building for lateral loads such as those generated by wind or earthquakes a design engineer may have several alternatives.
Shear wall analysis made easy.
This course has been approved by aia 1 hsw lu and icc 0 10 ceu.
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.
Force transfer around openings calculator.
A shear wall resists loads parallel to the plane of the wall.