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Showing 1 to 3 of 3 for “"wood shear walls"”.
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Reliability and effect of partially restrained wood shear walls
… AND EFFECT OF PARTIALLY RESTRAINED WOOD SHEAR WALLS</p> <p>by</p> <p>JOHN J. GRUBER</p> <p>MARCH 2012</p> <p>Advisor: Dr. Gongkang Fu</p> <p>Major: Civil Engineering</p> <p>Degree: Doctor or Philosophy</p> <p>The prescriptive design of the most widely used residential building code …
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Effect of Overturning Restraint on the Performance of Fully Sheathed and Perforated Timber Framed Shear Walls
… the monotonic and cyclic response of light-frame wood shear walls with and without openings. Effects of overturning restraint in the form of tie-down anchors and corner segments on light-frame shear walls with and without door and window openings were quantified. While the results are useful to …
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Analytical Modeling of Wood-Frame Shear Walls and Diaphragms
<p>Analytical models of wood-frame shear walls and diaphragms for use in monotonic, quasi-static (cyclic), and dynamic analyses are developed in this thesis. A new analytical model is developed to accurately represent connections between sheathing panels and wood framing members …