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When the moment produced at the base of vertical lateral-force-resisting elements is larger than the resistance provided by the foundation’s uplift resistance and building weight.
Industry:Construction
A wall that resists lateral forces applied normal to its plane.
Industry:Construction
A structural panel comprising thin elongated wood strands with surface layers arranged in the long panel direction and core layers arranged in the cross panel direction.
Industry:Construction
A moment frame system that meets the requirements for Ordinary Moment Frames as defined in seismic provisions for new construction in AISC (1994a), Chapter 5.
Industry:Construction
A limiting damage state for nonstructural building components used to define Rehabilitation Objectives.
Industry:Construction
An architectural, mechanical, plumbing, or electrical component, or item of interior equipment and furnishing, permanently installed in the building.
Industry:Construction
Analysis based on and including both elastic and post-yield force-versus-displacement relationships.
Industry:Construction
Multiwythe masonry wall acting without composite action.
Industry:Construction
A steel section in compression whose width-to-thickness ratio does not meet the limiting values for compactness.
Industry:Construction
The approximate rough-sawn commercial size by which lumber products are known and sold in the market. Actual rough-sawn sizes vary from the nominal. Reference to standards or grade rules is required to determine nominal to actual finished size relationships, which have changed over time.
Industry:Construction
