Important Educational Downloads About Earthquake Retrofitting
Each of these documents contains technical and engineering information that we have found indispensable in our designs and implementation of effective residential seismic retrofitting.
You will find information on general principles, the earthquake resistance of building materials no longer in use, tests of old foundations, tests of various retrofit components done in research laboratories, etc. These documents have been compiled over the past 15 years and some of the material is based on original research. The downloads are ranked from the most relevant to the least relevant, but all of them are applicable. If you know of any other research documents, or have written any original material, please send us that information and we will post it here.
PDF Downloads:
Garage Door Opening Retrofit
Newer Already Bolted Homes
Homeowner's Guide With Overturning
Common Retrofit Findings
Sample Proposal
Soft Story Proposal with Steel
Mudsill Connections
Existing Foundations
Base Shear Formula
Hazards Posed by Hillside Homes
Archaic Materials
Angle Iron Analysis Complete
Retrofit Foundation Bolts
Brick Foundation Retrofit
The International Existing Building Code
PEER Hillside Home Report
Important publications
15 ga staple capacity NER 272
2005 National Design Specification
ACQ pressure treated lumer fastener recommendations.pdf
APA Bolts in Plywood
APA Cyclic Shear Wall Testing
APA Diaphragms and Shear Walls
APA Double_2x_v_3x_in_Joints
APA Effect of openings on shear wall
APA Effect of overdriven nails on shear walls
APA Effects of blocking on Horiz shearwalls
APA Green lumber effect on shearwalls
APA Marine Grade Plywood
APA Minimum Nail Penetration
APA Report 138 Synopsis
APA Research Report 138
APA Research Report 154
APA shear wall blocking
APA Sheetmetal Blocking#2
APA Slant Nailed Shearwalls
Archaic Floor to Framing Connections
Drywall shear capacity
Efflorescence
Engineer liability
ESR 1579 Power-Driven Staples and Nails
ESR-1579 Synopsis
Fastener Capacities NER 272
Foundation Capping
How to Read the Simpson Catalog
L.A. Hillside Code
National Design Specification 2005
National Design Specification Synopsis
NER-272 Synopsis
Overturning Forces
Plan Set A Building Weights
Rotated Foundation Drawing
Simpson UFP Test
Soil too close to Mudsill Drawing
Strong Walls for Garages
The Importance of Plate washers
Three Ply Plywood
Toenails National Design Specification
Weight of Old Plaster
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