Moderately Ductile and Ductile shear walls can now be designed within MASS to satisfy the ductility verification (required by CSA S304-14) Any designers struggling with post-disaster strictures or the axial load limitations of conventional construction masonry will be happy to know that MASS Version 4.0 has the ability to perform Read more…
While you might not have expected it, MASS has it’s reasons for leaving your factored shear alone – even with earthquake loads applied As covered in a series of posts available here, it is common for designs to be greatly affected by the additional considerations for seismic design. All Read more…
Explaining these clauses and how they are applied Questions about the seismic effects on shear resistance? Click here for a separate post. This page covers the scaling up of seismic forces applied to the wall. You may have noticed after running a few designs in the newly released MASS Read more…
While not explicitly listed as a strain limit, the minimum boundary element size can have a large effect on how high maximum compressive strain can be increased. As part of the process of addressing a shear wall design with inadequate ductility, MASS will increase the maximum compressive strain, εmu Read more…