TehMightyEngineer
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Not sure who else has noticed but the NCEES has released the 2015 Design Standards and they've updated the codes as we expected:
http://cdn4.ncees.co/wp-content/uploads/2012/11/Str-Saturday-AM-Lateral-Forces_2011.pdf
It appears they also removed the requirement for masonry to use ASD unless slender walls with out-of-plane loads were involved. Makes sense with the switch to the 2011 Masonry code.
http://cdn4.ncees.co/wp-content/uploads/2012/11/Str-Saturday-AM-Lateral-Forces_2011.pdf
It appears they also removed the requirement for masonry to use ASD unless slender walls with out-of-plane loads were involved. Makes sense with the switch to the 2011 Masonry code.
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