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Project Type | Experimental |
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Keywords | Wood, Wind Engineering, Fragility Functions |
The data .csv files are located in Plywood Tests and OSB Tests folders. Each folder contains 10 test of a wood frame model that is supposed to represent what an actual wall built in practice would be built as. Each specimen was tested to failure. This was done to determine a statistical failure capacity of sheathing panel. Two types of sheathing panels were examined because these are the two types of sheathing panels used in residential construction. These two panels were compared to see if there was a difference in failure capacity between the two types. There was no statistical significance between the two types of panel, therefore we combined the results of the 20 tests as one group. The mean failure capacity was determined to be 4.21 kPa (88 psf). Fragility functions were made using a Monte Carlo Simulation to compare the probability of a was sheathing panel vs. a roof sheathing panel.