Development of Innovative Load Transfer Mechanism to Reduce Hurricane-Induced Failures in New and Existing Residential Construction
Implicit in current design practice of minimum uplift capacity, is the assumption that the connection's capacity is proportional to the number of fasteners per connection joint. This assumption may overestimate the capacity of joints by a factor of two or more and maybe the cause of connection...
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FIU Digital Commons
2010
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| Online Access: | http://digitalcommons.fiu.edu/etd/157 http://digitalcommons.fiu.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1213&context=etd |