Abstract: Brittle failures are frequently encountered in wood bolted connections. Because of high localized stress concentrations, cracks initiate at the boundary of the bolt-hole and propagate parallel to the grain. This paper is ...

Abstract: Despite much experience that low-rise wood buildings are vulnerable to damage by extreme wind events, few such structures have been tested in fullsize to understand how they respond to wind loads as a whole system. This ...

Abstract: This technical note describes how full-scale observations of external pressure coefficients for a single storey industrial building located in Quebec City, Canada compared with matched scale at 1:200 wind tunnel measurements. ...

Abstract: Light-frame wooden buildings are highly complex and redundant structural systems that behave as assemblies of folded and interlocked rib-stiffened plate systems. This paper describes structural monitoring experiments on ...