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1 Bearing wall system 1. Ught-framed walls with shear panels

a. Wood structural panel walls for structures three stories or less 5.5 2.6 ffi
b. All other light-framed walls 4.5 2.6 ffi
2. Shear walls
a. Concrete 4.5 2.8 16)
b. Masonry 4.5 2.8 16)
3. Ught steel-framed bearing walls with tension-{)nly bracing 2.8 2.2 EX)
4. Braced frames where bracing carries gravity load
a. Steel 4.4 I 2.2 100
b. ConcreteJ 2.8 2.2

c. Hea timber 2.8 2.2 e;

2. Building frame system 1. Steel eccentrically braced frame (EBF) I 7.0 2.8 240
2.Ught-framed walls with shear panels
a. Wood structural panel walls for structures three stories or less 6.5 2.8 EX)
b. All other light-framed walls 5.0 2.8 EX)
3. Shear walls
a. Concrete j 5.5 2.8 240
b. Masonry 5.5 2.8 16)
4. Ordinary braced frames
a. Steel 5.6 2.2 100
b. ConcreteJ 5.6 2.2
c. Heavy timber , 5.6 2.2 ffi
5. Special concentrically braced frames ""~:;.
a. Steel 6.4 2.2 240
3. Moment-resisting frame 1. Special moment-resisting frame (SMRF)
system a. Steel 8.5 2.8 NoLo
b. Concrete~ 8.5 2.8 NoLo
2. Masonry moment-resisting wall frame (MMRWF) 6.5 2.8 100
3. Concrete intermediate moment-resisting frame (IMRF)s 5.5 2.8
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",,:{f a. Steel" I 2.8 100I
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4 Dual system i 1. Shear walls
a. Concrete with SMRF 8.5 2.8 N.L.
b. Concrete with steel OMRF 4.2 2.8 100
c. Concrete with concrete IMRFS 6.5 2.8 100
' d. Masonry with SMRF 5.5 i 2.8 100
I e. Masonry with steel OMRF 42 I 28I! 100
f. Masonry with concrete IMRFJ 4.2 28
I g. Masonry with masonry MMRWF 6.0 28 100
2. Steel EBF
a. With steel SMRF 8.5 28 N.L
b. With steel OMRF 4.2 2.8 100
3. Ordinary braced frames
a. Steel with steel SMRF 6.5 2.8 N.L.
b. Steel with steel OMRF 4.2 2.8 100
c. Concrete with concrete SMRFJ 6.5 2.8
d. Concrete with concrete IMRFJ 4.2 2.8
4. Special concentrically braced frames
a. Steel with steel SMRF 7.5 2.8I NoL.
b. Steel with steel OMRF 4.2 2.8I 100
2.0 ~7
5. Cantilevered column 1. Cantilevered column elements 2.2

6. Shearwail-frame 1. Concrete" 5.5 2.8 16)

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by S.K. Ghosh, May-June issue of Building Standards magazine

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