Dennis's site is http://www.structuralist.net
HTH
MJ
----- Original Message ----
From: Mike Jones <mike.maryjones@gmail.com>
To: seaint@seaint.org
Sent: Tuesday, March 11, 2008 11:15:37 AM
Subject: Re: Rigid diaph. analysis with diagonal walls
On Tue, Mar 11, 2008 at 11:28 AM, Joseph R. Grill <jrgrill@cableone.net> wrote:
>
> Some time ago, it seems someone ask about a rigid diaphragm shear
> distribution to a wall system where some of the walls are diagonal to the
> orthogonal axes. I have looked through all my references and, of course,
> all the examples are pretty simple wall layouts, all at 90 degrees to each
> other. How do any of you take care of this situation? Are there any
> spreadsheets out there that will do this, or does anyone out there have an
> example from a reference that they could fax (or email) to me? Enercalc has
> a module to do this, but their new version does not contain the help module
> yet, so I can't get any background on it to see if I am inputting all the
> data correctly.
>
>
David's Merrick's spreadsheet has/had provisions for skewed and
orthgonal shear walls with a rigid diaphragm. Not sure where to get
the spreadsheet at this time...
Several posts by Mr. Merrick on skewed walls...
http://www.seaintarchive.org/group/seaint/mailarchive/2001a/msg00636.html
http://www.euken.net/group/seaoc/mailarchive/2007b/msg00200.html
http://www.euken.net/group/seaoc/mailarchive/2006d/msg00661.html
M.
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