| David Porter, PE, SE, of J&D Group is searching for an alternative method for anchoring wood
shear walls to concrete stem walls. The alternative anchor design, known as the adjustable
anchor system, will allow for a threaded rod to be adjusted horizontally within a concrete insert
to the desired position as required to align with the chords within a shear wall. This design is
intended to give concrete and wood framing contractors room for error when aligning embedded
anchors with shear wall chords, which has proven to be a critical issue among wood construction
projects. The work presented in this thesis is to understand the behavior of the proposed
adjustable anchor system due to tensile loads through experimental testing and computer
modeling. |