The use of large concrete transfer beams would have made move-ment of existing or placement of new utilities very difficult. In the final design, 18 floor-depth structural steel trusses and four wide-flange beam sections transfer 22 columns at the transfer level. Fourteen of the trusses use a composite top chord configura-tion. The stress behaviour obtained in this section will be compared with those from section 4.3.1. 4.3.2.1 Deformation of Shear Wall – Transfer Beam Structure The deformation of the shear wall-transfer beam structure, under both the lateral wind load and vertical imposed is indicated by the deformed mesh as shown in Figure 4.9.
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