FEMA P-1026, Seismic Design of Rigid Wall-Flexible Diaphragm Buildings: An Alternative Procedure

The 2022 edition of ASCE/SEI 7 includes a new seismic design procedure for rigid wall-flexible diaphragm (RWFD) buildings that explicitly accounts for diaphragm response and better reflects expected seismic behavior. This webinar will summarize the new procedure as presented in FEMA P-1026, Seismic Design of Rigid Wall-Flexible Diaphragm Buildings, which was updated in 2021 to incorporate newly available research and numerical studies on bare-steel-deck and wood diaphragms and to expand the design examples.