WIND & SEISMIC - AWC
4.3 Wood-Frame Shear Walls 4.4 Wood Structural Panels Designed to Resist Combined Shear and Uplift ... nominal strength to an allowable stress design level. BOUNDARY ELEMENT. ... discontinuities, and re-entrant corners. CHORD. A boundary element perpendicular to the applied load that resists axial stresses due to the in-duced moment. COLLECTOR.
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