KeySol,
Could you elaborate on your last statement, "You can use the header to resist shear."? I have used this example before for design and I have always specified the shearwall nailing above the opening to be as the calculations warrant. As you know, the shear can be about 1.5 times the...
I know I'm two weeks behind on responding, but here is some info: I was at a seminar a couple of months ago that was put on by a metal plate wood truss manufacturer where pretty much most of the 4-hour presentation was to inform the structural engineers that the permanent lateral bracing of the...