These construction systems can be used when designing a building for lateral loads such as those generated by wind or earthquakes.
Solid laminated roof diaphragm.
The term diaphragm is usually applied to roofs and floors.
Or thicker or laminated decking.
Inherent is the assumption that the sheathing nail will have a penetration of not less than 10 diameters.
Asce 7 american society of civil engineers.
Goodfellow also offers solid wood decking species in red pine red cedar spruce and larch.
Buildings that have primary wood frames with no lateral rigidity columns simply supported at top and bottom depend entirely on the diaphragm shear wall system for.
Minimum design loads for.
The ibc icc 2003a and the af pa 2005 permit wood structural panel diaphragm sheathing to be fastened over solid lumber planking or laminated decking using full tabulated values for new construction.
Nlt nail laminated timber is a mass timber panel system which can be used for floor wall and roof structures.
The roof diaphragm functions as a horizontal medium through which lateral forces are collected and redistributed to each participating vertical element wood frame shear walls.
Decking is also available in laminated wood.
Tall wood buildings like t3 minneapolis have used nlt as floor and roof panels atop glulam beams.
It is designed of two to five strips of kiln dried wood glued with an exterior waterproof adhesive to form a glulam roof decking.
A shear wall however is a vertical cantilevered diaphragm.
Irc table r803 1 lists 1 1 2 t g for rafter spans up to 72.
The entire solid non glazed area of the exterior walls has plywood sheathing but only a.
Construction adhesives for field gluing plywood to wood framing must meet minimum performance standards specified in astm d 3498 10.
Does anyone have experience using tongue and groove decking for roof sheathing.
I am looking to space rafters at 72 however i cannot find any information on diaphragm strength of the t g decking.
Design and detailing of plywood floor and roof diaphragms.
Nail laminated timber nlt.
A diaphragm is a flat structural unit acting like a deep thin beam.
Just wondering if anyone has used this decking to act as the roof diaphragm.
