Deflection Check for Out-of-Plane Walls
When designing out-of-plane cantilever walls subjected to lateral loads, the MASS software can be used to check the wall’s deflection a...
10
Jan
Tag Archives: Shear Wall Design
13
Apr
Why ISN’T the Factored Shear Force Scaled up for a Seismic Design?
While you might not have expected it, MASS has it's reasons for leaving your factored shear alone - even with earthquake loads applied
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01
Apr
Bonus Post: What happens when you treat a Multi-Storey Design as an Element when Increasing Factored in-Plane Shear ?
Does changing the analysis method effect the final results?
The process shown here is how MASS internally performs the analy...
18
Feb
How MASS Aligns Vertical Bars in a Multi-Storey Shear Wall
The method used by MASS to get bars to align is fairly complicated but gets the job done.
One early point of feedback in the...
06
Jan
Protip: Use the Multi-Storey Shear Wall Module to Design… Single Storey Shear Walls?
Yes, you did read that right! The Multi-Storey module can be used to break a single storey design into multiple shear wall elements.
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