Haven't really been following this thread, but thought I would point out
that "soft" and "weak" are not necessarily the same thing. Soft applies to
stiffness, weak applies to strength.
You can have a more flexible first story that still has the strength to
force the yield mechanisms up into the stories above, in which case it would
not be a "weak" story, only "soft".
Tiger
Terangue *Tiger* Gillham, PE
GK2, Inc.
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-----Original Message-----
From: sam2000 . (sam2000) [mailto:sam2000@cyber.net.pk]
Sent: Friday, May 09, 2008 2:46 PM
To: seaint@seaint.org
Subject: soft story
7 defines soft story as the one where "stiffness" is less than 70% of
story above. If stiffness is to be defined as I/L this would mean whenever
we have a 16ft 1st floor, we have a weak story, even though all the walls
and columns are continuing from the story above? This is frequently the case
in multi-story concrete buildings I design. I never thought of 1st story as
weak, unless I was missing a wall or something.
I'm afraid I haven't been reading it right. Have I?
Syed A Masroor
Consulting Structural Engineer
Karachi, Pakistan
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