Earthquake Resistant Design Of Nepal Police Headquarter

7.4 Design of Elevator Wall:

The design of lift wall has been designed as the reinforced wall monolithic to the other
structural members which is subjected to the direct compression. They are designed as per the
empirical procedure given in the IS-13920, clause 9.1.2 The minimum thickness of the wall
should be 150 mm. The design of a wall shall account of the actual eccentricity of the vertical
force subjected to the minimum value of 0.05t. The vertical load transmitted to a wall by a
discontinuous concrete floor or roof shall be assumed to act at one-third the depth of the bearing
area measured from the span face of the wall. Where there is an in-situ continuous concrete floor
over the wall, the load shall be assumed to act the center of the wall. The resultant eccentricity of
the total vertical load on a braced wall at any level between horizontal lateral supports, shall be
calculated on the assumption that the resultant eccentricity of all the vertical loads above the
upper support is zero.

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