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Notes:
CONNECTIONS RESISTING UPLIFT FORCES
- Review:
- In the Shear Wall section you learned that a building must resist two types of forces: shear and uplift.
- The horizontal forces acting on the top of a shear wall not only create shear forces in the wall but will also create uplift forces at the ends of the wall.
- Tall and narrow shear walls, in particular, have a tendency to overturn due to uplift forces created when an earthquake (lateral) force pushes the top of the wall.
