Abstract: The effect of waveform and loading sequence on the low-cycle fatigue life of spruce was investigated using parallel-to-grain compressive tests. Triangular, sinusoidal, and square waveforms were used, with a peak stress ...

Abstract: Walls of low-rise wood light-frame buildings are commonly employed as the primary means for resisting damaging effects of horizontal forces caused by events like hurricanes and earthquakes. Here test data show how openings ...

Abstract: During the period from October, 1957, to November, 1961, seventeen waterwall tube failures of the hydrogen-embrittlement type occurred in the three oil-fired, high makeup boilers of No. 1 Unit ...

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 ...