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d, the lateral forces were carried princi-pally by the reinforced concrete exterior wallsand elevator shaft walls as was required by therigidities involved. The jlateral force loadused in the design averaged about 4% of grav-ity. This percentage, however, was not uniformthroughout the building, but… … OF AnERICA &u Fig. 1—Typical connection of girder to column Connecting the new building to the existingbuilding necessitated some variation of theusual design rule of using a uniform soil pres-sure on all the foundation. The existing build-ing foundations had taken their settlementwhereas the…
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