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A nonveneered structural panel manufactured from two- to three-inch flakes or wafers bonded together with a phenolic resin and pressed into sheet panels.
Industry:Construction
A discontinuity of strength, stiffness, geometry, or mass in one story with respect to adjacent stories.
Industry:Construction
Devices having mechanical characteristics such that the force in the device is dependent on the relative velocity in the device.
Industry:Construction
A concentric braced frame (CBF) in which a pair of diagonal braces located either above or below a beam is connected to a single point within the clear beam span. Where the diagonal braces are below the beam, the system also is referred to as an “inverted V-brace frame,” or “chevron bracing.”
Industry:Construction
A masonry wall containing less than the minimum amounts of reinforcement as defined for masonry (RM) walls. An unreinforced wall is assumed to resist gravity and lateral loads solely through resistance of the masonry materials.
Industry:Construction
Maximum possible foundation load or stress (strength); increase in deformation or strain results in no increase in load or stress.
Industry:Construction
A wall that is oriented transverse to the in-plane shear walls, and resists lateral forces applied normal to its plane. Also known as an out-of-plane wall.
Industry:Construction
Lumber of nominal five or more inches in smaller cross-section dimension.
Industry:Construction
The collection of structural connections, components, and elements that provide restraint against uplift of the structure above the isolation system.
Industry:Construction
