Thread: Wood shear wall uplift load combinations

According to the ASCE, I think we need to apply the omega to discontinuous shearwall holddwons. Please tell me if I am wrong. I discuss this with some other PE's, most of them do not use overstrength factor to fator up the overturning momnent when designing shearwall holddwons. If the omega is applied to the holddwon design, the uplift seems too large to be pratical, especially for residential houses. We did not fator it up in some...

I use the ASCE combinations like you use, I use the overstrength factor to factor up the load for drag connections with seismic loading.

( Don't you also have to apply the overstrength factor to discontinuous shearwall holddowns that create a soft story condition? , )