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A member at the perimeter (edge or opening) of a shear wall or horizontal diaphragm that provides tensile and/or compressive strength.
Industry:Construction
A structural member whose primary function is to carry loads transverse to its longitudinal axis, usually a horizontal member in a seismic frame system.
Industry:Construction
Continuous stud framing from sill to roof, with intervening floor joists nailed to studs and supported by a let-in ribbon. (See platform framing.)
Industry:Construction
A collection of structural members and/or components connected in a such manner that load applied to any one component will affect the stress conditions of adjacent components.
Industry:Construction
Ratio of height to width for vertical diaphragms, and width to depth for horizontal diaphragms.
Industry:Construction
Foundation load or stress commonly used in working-stress design (often controlled by long-term settlement rather than soil strength).
Industry:Construction
Sometimes called a generalized force, most commonly a single force or moment. However, an action may also be a combination of forces and moments, a distributed loading, or any combination of forces and moments. Actions always produce or cause displacements or deformations; for example, a bending moment action causes flexural deformation in a beam; an axial force action in a column causes axial deformation in the column; a torsional moment action on a building causes torsional deformations (displacements) in the building.
Industry:Construction
Permissible values of such properties as drift, component strength demand, and inelastic deformation, used to determine the acceptability of a component’s projected behavior at a given Performance Level.
Industry:Construction
A nonstructural component sensitive to and subject to damage from inertial loading. Once inertial loads are generated within the component, the deformation of the component may be significant; this is separate from the issue of deformation imposed on the component by structural deflections (see deformation-sensitive nonstructural components).
Industry:Construction
