We like to use H/500 both for the overall building
And inter story drift.
David L. Fisher SE PE
Senior Principal
Fisher and Partners
372 West Ontario
Suite 301
Chicago 60654
312.622.0409 (m)
312.573.1701
312.573.1726 (f)
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-----Original Message-----
From: Doug Mayer [mailto:doug.mayer@taylorteter.com]
Sent: Wednesday, November 04, 2009 2:15 PM
To: seaint@seaint.org
Subject: Deflection
When wind governs in your lateral system design, what is the building drift limitation? There doesn’t seem to be any specified building drift limitation for wind loads (that I can find) in the code. What do you wind country folks do?
Thanks,
Doug Mayer, SE