Makes sense, and for steep pitches too. The rafter, toplate sheathing detail isn't specified here like that IME, although may happen in practice in timber frame. I'll look out the reference, thanks.
More just a conceptual description of load transfer. It seems to me that the steeper the pitch, the less the sheathing can be relied upon. At one limit, with a vertical "roof", thin plywood wouldn't be capable of transferring load to a shear wall as it would be acting almost entirely in bending...
I'd be interested to hear people's ideas on how cross-ridge wind loads are transferred to shear/gable walls in pitched roofs. Two scenarios
1) 45deg pitch with ridge beam and timber frame walls. I am seeing a substantial lateral load on the ridge beam causing minor axis bending, transferred to...
