Wednesday, July 18, 2007

UBC-97 and Piperacks

Just reading the UBC 97 I am inclined to use an R = 2.9 for non building
structures, however reading into the blue book it seems I should use the
values in table 16-N (R=4.5 for OMRF of steel). Is this correct?

TIA

Rand


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