Shear Panel Wall

Column with draft stops shown above.

Shear panel wall.

When we stand an unbraced wall it is easy to push it parallel to the top and bottom plates and cause the wall to collapse. The strong wall wood shearwall is a field adjustable prefabricated engineered wood panel that helps structures resist lateral forces such as those created by earthquakes and high winds. This wall consists of the reinforcements and. Steel plate shear wall.

Shear panels are also known as shear walls or braced panels. Easy to install easy to inspect eliminates callbacks associated with conventional shear walls. A shear wall called a braced wall in the prescriptive world of the international codes is a building element that will resist the racking forces caused by high winds or earthquakes. Also allows for use in cripple wall situations.

Strong wall wood shearwall multi story kit required for two story stacked applications. This is the most common type of this walls. They are constructed by bolting a number of lateral supports to the external framing of a building along with the internal joists in the floor and roof. If the plywood nailing is going to be 2 inches apart nail them together 2 inches apart with 16 s.

Building shear walls 8 essential tips 1 at double stud locations where two pieces of plywood form a seam stitch nail the two studs together with 16 s 3 inches apart staggered. Types of the shear wall. Brace taller panels with adjacent walls to save the cost of an ec6 or ec8 option. The steel plate wall consists of steel plate walls and bounded by the columns and the.

These walls consist. If 6 inches nail them 6 inches apart etc. Plywood is the conventional material used in wood timber shear walls but with advances in technology and modern building methods other prefabricated options have made it possible to inject shear assemblies into narrow walls that fall at either side of an opening. Achieve about 30 more shear capacity over squash block systems by using a custom height panel from stem wall to top plate.

The steel strong wall shearwalls conform to icc es acceptance criteria ac322 and are code listed under the 2015 irc ibc see icc es esr 1679.