Maybe if you meant this one!
Google has given me some leads but I'm looking specifically for houses under construction, which can fail under a big gust. Usually not newsworthy.
I am doing a small research project on wind failures of houses during construction and am trying to collect as many sample failures as possible to help with classifying the failures that happen. We expect most are due to inappropriate bracing of the walls, but have research implying that sealing...
Looking to start a discussion on failures of wood-frame buildings that occur during construction. Have heard of a few incidents in Canada recently. The first appears to have been due to improper temporary diagonal bracing on the truss chords...
From what I understand the house was angled so that the garage door would blow in, which happened shortly before that wall started to come off.
I agree, the representation by the media often isn't great (Aside: For example, media reports of damage from Hurricane Irma led us to expect damage...
MotorCity: Outside of those large doors on the outer building IBHS has several miles of land cleared to allow for debris to exit and come to rest safely, away from all of the expensive equipment.
The second house, which was tested yesterday, was built to IBHS FORTIFIED specifications (http://disastersafety.org/clp-demo/). I'm not sure about the particulars of the first house - the one which lost its roof - but I assume it did not include straps so that they could verify the dispraity in...
I plan on analyzing the roof model using both pinned and rigid (separate cases) connection assumptions in hopes to get an envelope of the highest possible member end (joint) forces. Now I'm looking for capacity estimates to compare the extreme end moments and axial forces to, so that we can get...
Thanks Koot!
I have been attempting to pick apart the Ma equation from the TPI Clause 8.7.1, but find it to be quite complicated. In the TPI 2007 Commentary I also found reference to the moment provisions from the previous version, where the applied moment was converted into an equivalent...
It would be great if somebody could point me in the direction of any documents related to estimating the in-plane moment capacity of metal truss plates for wooden roof structures. I was hoping that I could find a method of quickly, and relatively accurately, assessing the moment capacity of the...
Hi there,
I am trying to model wood roof truss systems, and I am wondering if there is a way, in V18, to model "truss" joints with partial fixity (applying empirical joint axial stiffnesses) to be applied only when the members are in tension.
Assuming that there is no gap between members, I...
