Composite Collector Beam Design with Seismic Loads Excel Sheet

DESIGN CRITERIA

1. When welded shear connectors are used for the transfer of lateral shear loads to drags/collectors, the allowable shear strength maybe 75% of the available strength for both gravity and lateral design (ACI 318-14 Chapter 17), to consider concrete cracked at lateral loads.

2. The input STUDS SPACING must be based on actual deck ribs spacing perpendicular to the beam. For the following total [15] studs, if ribs