The design of wood structural assemblies requires attention to all the wood elements and the fasteners, as each could be the weak link causing failure. In this experiment students construct and test wood shear walls with different fasteners to discover the resulting failure modes.
Wall Fabrication
Testing Setup and Measuring Displacement
Results
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