Abstract: Shear walls play an important role in the wind and seismic resistance of low‐rise wood‐framed buildings. The behavior of shear walls is primarily governed by the nail force‐slip characteristics. The bending stiffness of ...

Abstract: A simple model for the lateral behavior of wood‐framed shear walls with stud uplifting is presented. The single‐story wall has five degrees of freedom: (1) the shear rotation of the frame; (2) two relative rotations of the ...

Abstract: A simple model is presented for analyzing wood‐framed houses subjected to lateral forces from wind and earthquake. The model has been applied to the analysis of a wood‐framed house at five stages of its construction. A ...