Abstract: There is a current ASCE Standards Committee activity to develop a standard that provides engineers and designers with minimum recommended design loads for construction. This paper reports on the development of load ...

Abstract: This paper reports on work, conducted under Task 1.5.3 (Reliability Studies) of the CUREE-Caltech Woodframe Project, with the objective of developing a risk-based methodology for seismic design of shear walls. Along with ...

Abstract: This paper examines the effects of procedures for both ground motion record selection and scaling on performance-based engineering tools underlying emerging seismic design procedures for engineered wood-frame structures. ...

Abstract: Beneficial system behavior has been acknowledged in the design of repetitive-member systems. Current design specifications for wood (both National Design Specification and LRFD) permit the use of a repetitive-member factor ...

Abstract: The majority of residential construction in the United States is light-frame wood construction. An increasingly large number of homes are being built in coastal areas subject to hurricanes. In response to devastating losses ...

Abstract: In this first part of a two-part paper, the statistics of wind loads acting on roof structural components in light-frame structures are evaluated for use in a reliability analysis. Particular attention is paid to typical ...

Abstract: The effect of moisture content on the reliability of structural wood members is examined, and possible code provisions to account for such effects are presented. Specifically, the effect of assuming one moisture content ...

Abstract: Deterioration plays an important part in the life cycle of infrastructure systems. Among all causes of deterioration (aging, chloride ingress, etc.) the action of live organisms has shown to be critical in, for example, ...