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Old 07-16-2009, 05:45 PM   #22
mhgaffney
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OK.

Here is the link for the demand/capacity ratios for the core columns. Don't ask me why they included this data in project # 6. I did not organize the NIST Report. Scroll to page 233

http://wtc.nist.gov/pubs/NISTNCSTAR1-6Draft.pdf

The average ratio is .484

Which translates to an average ~2.1 factor of safety. (Simply divide .484 into 1.0.
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