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opening at a tilt up wall panel
looking at opening up a 12 foot wide section from the floor to the roof beam in a 20' wide tilt up panel between a reinforced concrete columns at each side of a one story building. to help with shear we are considering installing tube steel horizontally between the rough opening. opening will be at each bay for the entire building. steel to go above 9' high storefront. anyone run into a similar application?
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you likely thought of this, but how does cutting the holes through the panels affect lateral load resisting system (wind & seismic)? are all of the panels shear walls? when you mention "shear", is that from roof loads? had similar application where the owner/architect wanted to install storefront glass across the entire front of a building, but had to scale back # of openings due to effects changes had on the shear walls. this has happened on both tilt-up and load bearing cmu wall construction.
shear would be considered for wind and seismic. the buildings is about 630'x125'. openings on the 630 foot sides.

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