2x4 and 2x6 walls are regularly used in wood framing to hold up whole buildings, but without sheathing, individual sticks tend to buckle at very low axial loads. Just like a ruler, unbraced 2x...
Category: Loads & Codes
In many areas of the world, wind storms remain one of the most prevalent sources of damage to buildings. It can be tough to know just how hard the wind will blow on an object, and buildings are...
Have you ever had to chip a thick layer of ice off a car to get in, only to then have to run it for an hour with the heat on full blast to get the windshield cleared? If you're from a colder...
Image by David Mark from Pixabay No one wants their building to collapse, but constructing buildings to withstand overly-harsh loading conditions can make them so expensive that they never get...
It seems every time a big wind storm comes through, or the snow gets deep, or rains make soils heavy, a few buildings collapse. When big events like strong hurricanes, earthquakes, or tornados...
If you're not accustomed to designing buildings in more mountainous regions of the United States, the addition of a "Site Elevation Factor" to the design wind load equations in ASCE 7-16 may have...