Wind Trusses and Shear Walls
Example Structures
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Shear Wall Movie
- MPEG formatAround 2.8MB!
- Quicktime FormatAround 1.3MB
- Simple Wind Truss Diagram
Simple Shear Wall Diagram
- Hugh Stubbins, Citicorp Center, New York - Section
- Citicorp - Section
- Citicorp - View From Street
- Portal Frame - Covered Bridge
- Portal Frame - Covered Bridge, Interior Detail
- Diagonally Braced Buildings
- S.O.M., John Hancock Center, Chicago, Illinois
- Platform Frame - Axonometric
- Platform Frame - Lateral Loading of Rectangular Building
- Portal Frame - Roof Structure Internal View
- L.Kahn, Salk Institute, La Jolla, LA.
- Bearing Wall - Venacular House in Stone
Building
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