Shear-wall structure and method employing laterally bounding columns
AssigneeConXtech, Inc.
InventorRobert J. Simmons
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Abstract
Building frame shear-wall structure and associated methodology wherein the resulting structure includes (a) plural, elongate, spaced, interconnected columns and beams including elongate stretches which define and perimeter nominally open panes, and (b) within each defined and perimetered pane, an introduced, cured body of curable structural flow material spanning and effectively forming a column-and-beam-anchored rigidifying shear panel in the pane.
Claims11
Building frame shear-wall structure for use in a plural-story, site-built, building comprising
- plural, elongate, spaced, interconnected next-adjacent columns and next-adjacent beams including elongate stretches which define and perimeter nominally open panes, and
- within each said defined and perimetered pane, an introduced, cured body of curable structural shear-load-bearing flow material spanning and effectively forming a column-and-beam-anchored rigidifying shear panel in the pane, with each said shear panel being laterally bounded by a pair of next-adjacent columns.
Building-frame shear-wall structure for use in a plural-story, site-built, building comprising
- plural, elongate, laterally spaced, generally upright columns,
- plural, elongate, vertically spaced, generally horizontal beams load-bearingly connected to said columns at spaced nodal points of intersection between the columns and the beams to form a structural building frame, with sets of next-adjacent, pairs of elongate stretches of the columns and beams defining and bounding plural, perimetered, generally planar panes, and
- disposed as a substantially planar, upright panel within and substantially fully spanning each said pane, cured, structural shear-load-bearing flow material which is anchored via an embedding condition to at least one column stretch and to at least one beam stretch which play roles in defining the pane, with each said panel being laterally bounded by a pair of next-adjacent columns.
A method for creating building-frame shear wall structure for use in a plural-story, site-built, building comprising
- assembling next-adjacent pairs of interconnected, elongate columns and beams to establish, through confronting, elongate, column and beam stretches, perimeter-bounded, nominally open, upright, and substantially planar panes having thicknesses measured, normal to their respective planes which are defined in relation to the column and beam stretches which bound the respective panes,
- for each such pane, and utilizing the stretches of columns and beams which perimeter-bound the pane as perimeter-defining, flow-material forms, flowing curable, structural flow shear-load-bearing material into the panes to produce a flow-material panel substantially fully spanning the pane and possessing the mentioned, defined pane thickness, with each said panel being laterally bounded by a pair of next-adjacent columns.
- curing the flowed material in each such panel to a condition of rigidity, and
- during said curing, establishing a condition of co-anchoring between the curing flow-material panel and the associated, bounding column and beam stretches.
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