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seismic design of wood and reinforced masonry buildings. It is assumed that the reader is familiar with the >U* p[FGW TyxIlI4"
provisions of either the Uniform Building Code (UBC), Building Officials and Code Administrators ShC$ue?Q VFT@Ic#]
(BOCA), or Southern Building Code Congress International (SBCCI), or international code council, ep"{{S5g E(qYCafC
international building code (IBC). For consistency of presentation the primary reference, including notations 8'@5X-nD iP/v"g"g
and definitions, will be to the UBC 97. Included within the presentation on diaphragms are criteria and Szt2 "AR wak 26W>I3
example problems for both rigid and flexible diaphragms. Also included is the UBC 97 criteria for the `,SL\\%u [)H 6`w
analytical definition of rigid versus flexible diaphragms. Wood shear walls and the distribution of lateral iwM x Tty !\]^c
forces to a series of wood shear walls is presented using Allowable Stress Design (ASD). Masonry slender tgG 8pL _iwG'a[`
walls (out-of-plane loads) and masonry shear walls (in-plane loads) are presented using Load and Resistance gk| % 4. NgNGq\!
Factor Design (LRFD).