Small-scale rack testing of wood-frame shear walls

Wood and Fiber Science

Volumn 38, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 300-313

  Beall, Frank C ^a   Li, Jian ^a   Breiner, Thomas A ^a   Wai, James ^a   Machado, Carlos ^b   Oberdorfer, Georg ^a   Mosalam, Khalid ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b University of California   (United States)

^c Berkeley   (United States)

Author keywords

Monotonic testing; Oriented strandboard; Plywood; Racking; Seismic

Indexed keywords

DEFORMATION; SHEAR STRESS; STIFFNESS; TESTING; WALLS (STRUCTURAL PARTITIONS);

MONOTONIC TESTING; ORIENTED STRANDBOARD; RACK TESTING; WOOD-FRAME SHEAR WALLS;

PLYWOOD;

DEFORMATION; SHEAR STRESS; STIFFNESS; TESTING; WALLS;

EID: 33646557977     PISSN: 07356161     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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