This simple wizard will assist you in determining the maximum design base shear for the building you specify. This wizard's calculations are based on the 1994 Uniform Building Code.
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What is the floor-to-floor height of the building in feet? feet
How many floors are in the building? floors
The importance factor will add additional seismic load requirements to your building if your building is deamed an essential structure in a natural disaster.
Please specify the intended strcutural system. The intended structural system will take into account both the material selected and the ductility of the structural system selected.
Please specify the following information as indicated by your soils engineer or soils report.
We have now collected all of the necissary information and we are ready to send that information to our server for processing.
Click 'Send' when you are ready to send the information to the server