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Apr 26, 2012
Performance of Toe-Nail Connections under Realistic Wind Loading
Publication: Structures Congress 2010
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Using the pressure loading actuators (PLA) at the University of Western Ontario, ramp and actual wind loads are applied to toe-nail connections for wood-frame residential construction. The ultimate capacity from the ramp and actual wind load tests are similar to those found in the literature. However, under realistic wind loading, the toe-nail connections are found to fail in increments with only the intermittently occurring peak pressures causing the majority of the damage to the connection. In addition, the effects of construction defects, in this case missing nails, were also examined in order to determine the reduction in capacity caused by these.
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© 2010 American Society of Civil Engineers.
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Published online: Apr 26, 2012
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ASCE Technical Topics:
- Building design
- Connections (structural)
- Construction engineering
- Construction industry
- Construction management
- Continuum mechanics
- Design (by type)
- Dynamic loads
- Dynamics (solid mechanics)
- Engineering fundamentals
- Engineering mechanics
- Foundation design
- Foundations
- Geotechnical engineering
- Load bearing capacity
- Load factors
- Load tests
- Residential construction
- Solid mechanics
- Structural design
- Structural dynamics
- Structural engineering
- Structural members
- Structural systems
- Tests (by type)
- Wind engineering
- Wind loads
- Wind pressure
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M. J. Morrison
Ph.D. Candidate, Boundary Layer Wind Tunnel Laboratory, University of Western Ontario, London, Canada
Professor and Canada Research Chair in Wind Engineering, Boundary Layer Wind Tunnel Laboratory, University of Western Ontario, London, Canada. E-mail: [email protected]
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