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Analysis based on a straight-line (elastic) force-versus-displacement relationship.
Industry:Construction
Those elements of the structure that provide its basic lateral strength and stiffness, and without which the structure would be laterally unstable.
Industry:Construction
Member designed to inhibit lateral buckling or lateral-torsional buckling of a component.
Industry:Construction
Full height stud or studs adjacent to openings that provide out-of-plane stability to cripple studs at openings.
Industry:Construction
The relative horizontal displacement of two adjacent floors in a building. Inter-story drift can also be expressed as a percentage of the story height separating the two adjacent floors.
Industry:Construction
A panel of masonry placed within a steel or concrete frame. Panels separated from the surrounding frame by a gap are termed "isolated infills". Panels that are in tight contact with a frame around its full perimeter are termed “shear infills.” In-plane wall
Industry:Construction
A masonry unit whose net crosssectional area in every plane parallel to the bearing surface is less than 75% of the gross cross-sectional area in the same plane.
Industry:Construction
Hardware used to anchor the vertical chord forces to the foundation or framing of the structure in order to resist overturning of the wall.
Industry:Construction
Vertical mortar joint placed between masonry units in the same wythe.
Industry:Construction
