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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 *w,gi.Y3
provisions of either the Uniform Building Code (UBC), Building Officials and Code Administrators ShC$ue?Q Qg.:w
(BOCA), or Southern Building Code Congress International (SBCCI), or international code council, ep"{{S5g 3^UsyZS)
international building code (IBC). For consistency of presentation the primary reference, including notations 8'@5X-nD D;n%sRq(Z
and definitions, will be to the UBC 97. Included within the presentation on diaphragms are criteria and Szt2 "AR P&^7wud-sb
example problems for both rigid and flexible diaphragms. Also included is the UBC 97 criteria for the `,SL\\%u 1iW9?=a"
analytical definition of rigid versus flexible diaphragms. Wood shear walls and the distribution of lateral iwM x Tty ,(=]6V
forces to a series of wood shear walls is presented using Allowable Stress Design (ASD). Masonry slender tgG 8pL F|K4zhK
walls (out-of-plane loads) and masonry shear walls (in-plane loads) are presented using Load and Resistance gk| % 4. ~J{{n_G{
Factor Design (LRFD).