Simpson Full Height Concrete Garage Wing Walls

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.

Simpson full height concrete garage wing walls.

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. The simpson 2 x 10 shear wall has an allowable shear of only 1590 lbs while you have 5000 lb. Stub abutments may be used when it is desirable to keep the abutments away from the. Garage header rough opening height.

The strong wall wood shearwalls may be trimmed to a minimum height of 74. Wood strong wall panels can reduce the amount of wall space required for shearwalls allowing for more windows and doors in house designs. Simpson strong tie category strong wall shearwalls we use cookies on this site to enhance your user experience. Select the nominal wall height of the 1st story wall framing.

Concrete footings are minimum 8 x 16 with two steel 5 8 reinforcing. This is 2500 plf of unit shear which is about twice what you can resist with a two sided shear wall. The height of the garage curb above the garage slab is critical for rough header opening at garage return walls. By clicking i agree below you are giving your consent for us to set cookies.

Walls may be installed with solid or multi ply headers see detail 11 ssw2. Alternatively standard strong wall models extending to the underside of the top plates may be used at garage fronts when a full height wall. All strong wall wood shearwalls are supplied with top of wall shear transfer plates nuts washers and installation instructions. 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.

Portal frame connection kit. 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. Simpson strong tie has two products in our prefabricated shearwall family the steel strong wall ssw and the strong wall wood shearwall wsw. If required rough opening height exceeds table value specify next taller panel and trim as necessary.

Furring down garage header may be required for correct rough opening height. Additionally shearwalls 100 inches or less in height are supplied with four portal straps. This reduces the initial superstructure costs. When designing a wood shearwall designers need to consider the shear sheathing and nailing overturning holdowns concrete anchorage and drift.