Abstract: Innovation can bring productive change to the way business is done—a concept not easily accepted by government agencies. Barriers combine to stifle innovation and include the difficulty in providing services and programs ...

Abstract: Current methods used in the design of nailed connections do not directly relate to the types of joints found in manufactured housing. These methods do not account for the construction practices used today, such as power ...

Abstract: Threaded nails are used in wood construction because of their superior performance, but relatively few tests have been conducted on nails larger than 12