Calculating Seismic Story Shear - 13 Story Building - Using ASCE 7-16

Team Kestava tackles more seismic design problems using ASCE 7-16 chapters 11 and 12, and this time its all about finding story shear for multi story buildings. This example problem goes through the steps on how to find seismic criteria of a structure based on a few preset parameters.

The team shows you how to calculate base shear of a multi story structure and then we walk through how to distributed that base shear into individual story shear. Its our first steps into designing a skyscraper and highrise!

We touch on:

seismic mass
base shear (V)
story shear (Fx)
Cs
Response modification factor (R)
Importance factor (I)
Period of our structure (T)

By the end of our seismic lessons ASCE 7-16 WILL be your friend.... that still eats your food.

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