Simpson Full Height Concrete Garage Wing Walls

If required rough opening height exceeds table value specify next taller panel and trim as necessary.

Simpson full height concrete garage wing walls. Additionally shearwalls 100 inches or less in height are supplied with four portal straps. The legacy wood strong wall shear wall can be installed around window and door openings on garage wing walls interior walls or any other locations where increased lateral resistance is required. Wood shearwalls are typically used in locations where increased lateral resistance is required such as around window and door openings on garage wing walls and interior walls. This is 2500 plf of unit shear which is about twice what you can resist with a two sided shear wall.

Walls may be installed with solid or multi ply headers see detail 11 ssw2. The steel strong wall shearwalls conform to icc es acceptance criteria ac322 and are code listed under the 2015 irc ibc see icc es esr 1679. Furring down garage header may be required for correct rough opening height. Alternatively standard strong wall models extending to the underside of the top plates may be used at garage fronts when a full height wall.

The simpson 2 x 10 shear wall has an allowable shear of only 1590 lbs while you have 5000 lb. Concrete footings are minimum 8 x 16 with two steel 5 8 reinforcing. Stub abutments may be used when it is desirable to keep the abutments away from the. By clicking i agree below you are giving your consent for us to set cookies.

Simpson strong tie has two products in our prefabricated shearwall family the steel strong wall ssw and the strong wall wood shearwall wsw. Install the wall flush to exterior face of the framing and add furring to the opposite side. Lateral bracing of garage wing walls rg88 structural op. This reduces the initial superstructure costs.

Portal frame connection kit. Select the nominal wall height of the 1st story wall framing. For garage front applications 7 ft 7 4 ft and 8 ft strong wall portal models are installed with the garage header on top of the strong wall. Simpson strong tie category strong wall shearwalls we use cookies on this site to enhance your user experience.

Garage header rough opening height. When designing a wood shearwall designers need to consider the shear sheathing and nailing overturning holdowns concrete anchorage and drift. The strong wall wood shearwalls may be trimmed to a minimum height of 74. Figure 10 1 3 full height abutment figure 10 1 4 stub abutment full height abutments and stub abutments full height abutments are used when shorter spans are desired or if there are right of way or terrain issues.