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    The document summarizes ASCE 7-05 Section 12.10.1.1 regarding diaphragm design forces for seismic design. It states that diaphragms must be designed for the larger of either seismic design forces determined from structural analysis, or inertia forces determined by an equation that considers story shear and diaphragm weight. The inertia force equation approximates the response acceleration times diaphragm mass. It also notes that additional transfer forces may need to be considered between vertical resisting elements above and below the diaphragm. An example is provided to illustrate determining diaphragm design forces.

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    The document summarizes ASCE 7-05 Section 12.10.1.1 regarding diaphragm design forces for seismic design. It states that diaphragms must be designed for the larger of either seismic design forces determined from structural analysis, or inertia forces determined by an equation that considers story shear and diaphragm weight. The inertia force equation approximates the response acceleration times diaphragm mass. It also notes that additional transfer forces may need to be considered between vertical resisting elements above and below the diaphragm. An example is provided to illustrate determining diaphragm design forces.

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    The document summarizes ASCE 7-05 Section 12.10.1.1 regarding diaphragm design forces for seismic design. It states that diaphragms must be designed for the larger of either seismic design forces determined from structural analysis, or inertia forces determined by an equation that considers story shear and diaphragm weight. The inertia force equation approximates the response acceleration times diaphragm mass. It also notes that additional transfer forces may need to be considered between vertical resisting elements above and below the diaphragm. An example is provided to illustrate determining diaphragm design forces.

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    The document summarizes ASCE 7-05 Section 12.10.1.1 regarding diaphragm design forces for seismic design. It states that diaphragms must be designed for the larger of either seismic design forces determined from structural analysis, or inertia forces determined by an equation that considers story shear and diaphragm weight. The inertia force equation approximates the response acceleration times diaphragm mass. It also notes that additional transfer forces may need to be considered between vertical resisting elements above and below the diaphragm. An example is provided to illustrate determining diaphragm design forces.

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    ASCE 7-05 Section 12.10.1.

    1: Diaphragm
    Design Forces
    August 2010 » Columns » CODE SIMPLE

    In seismic design, a diaphragm must be designed for the larger of the following two different
    design forces that are specified by The American Society of Civil Engineers’ Minimum Design
    Loads for Buildings and Other Structures (ASCE 7-05):

    · The seismic design forces, Fx at Level x, determined from elastic analysis of the vertical
    seismic force-resisting system; these forces are typically determined using either the
    Equivalent Lateral Force Procedure of Section 12.8 or Modal Response Spectrum
    Analysis of Section 12.9.
    · Inertia forces determined from Equation 12.10-1:

    Equation 12.10-1 gives the diaphragm design forces as a function of story shear in the story
    below the diaphragm and the ratio of the weight of the diaphragm to the weight of all the
    diaphragms resisting the story shear below the diaphragm. A (non-mandatory) upper-bound
    value and a (mandatory) lower-bound value are also given as 0.4SDSIwpx and 0.2SDSIwpx,
    respectively.

    The inertia force equation is simply an approximation of the response acceleration at the level of
    the diaphragm times its distributed mass. Equation 12.10-1 (with the lower-bound value of
    0.2SDSIwpx) typically results in a higher diaphragm design force than the seismic design force
    from structural analysis.

    The detailing of diaphragms is generally independent of the type of seismic force-resisting


    system selected for a building; therefore the system R-value does not appear in the upper- and
    lower-limit equations.
    In addition to these diaphragm design forces, in multistory structures there may be seismic
    design forces to be transferred from vertical resisting elements above the diaphragm to other
    vertical resisting elements below the diaphragm. For structures assigned to SDC D, E, or F, the
    redundancy factor, ρ, as applicable to the whole structure, is to be applied to the transfer forces,
    but it need not apply to forces obtained from Equation 12.10-1.

    Table 1 illustrates the determination of the diaphragm design forces for the three-story building
    shown in Figure 1 where SDS = 1.0 and I = 1.

    Figure 1: Plan and elevation of example building

    S.K. Ghosh Associates Inc., is a structural seismic and code consulting firm located in Palatine,
    Ill., and Aliso Viejo, Calif. Presidents S.K. Ghosh, Ph.D., and Susan Dowty, S.E., are active in
    the development and interpretation of national structural code provisions. They can be contacted
    at skghosh@aol.com and susandowty@gmail.com, respectively, or at
    www.skghoshassociates.com

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