RE: Staircase Structure 140 ft tall in OCBF?

This is a nonbuilding structure.  Use the ASCE 7, Table 15.4-1.  What you are presenting is why the nonbuilding structures section was developed.  Your mass should be fairly low.  Consider the OCBF with an R of 1.5 with no height limit. 

Regards, Harold Sprague


 

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Subject: RE: Staircase Structure 140 ft tall in OCBF?
Date: Thu, 12 Nov 2009 15:05:26 -0600
From: Ravi.Vasu@jacobs.com
To: seaint@seaint.org

I am resending this, corrected.

 

List,

 

I have a stairwell, 10 ft X 18 ft(plan dimension) x 140 ft tall structure located in SDC 'D'. The columns are braced on all sides.

This is for a tall vessel 140 ft in height. & the staircase serves as the only access to reach the vessel at different heights

for the maintenance people.  The stairwell is hardly occupied, may by 1 - 5 persons at a time per day, about 1 to 5 times

per day.

 

Up to a height of about 40 ft, the stairwell is laterally tied to a piperack structure(that is non building structure, similar to buildings)

located at about 10 ft from the stairwell.  The staircase serves as an access to piperack platform also at 40 ft height.

 

I am trying to see whether OCBF fits the staircase structure  The stair structure is not a heavily occupied structure and I think

using SCBF(many details) may be too much.  But,  IBC 2006/ASCE 7-05 assigns a height of 35 ft to OCBF under 'Building' structures.  

Can you pl. look into it & tell, under which braced system, the structure falls into(OCBF or SCBF)?  

 

Thanks

 

 

Ravi Vasu

 

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