Wood

Continuous rod tie-down to SDPWS 2021, NDS 2024, AISC 360-22

A continuous rod up a stacked wood shear wall: rod tension, bearing plates, compression posts, shrinkage and take-up travel, chord deformation, wall deflection and story drift.

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ILX Calcs editor for a continuous rod tie-down calculation: inputs, status, live checks and the drawing

What you get

From the inputs to a finished continuous rod tie-down calculation

The applicable checks, step by step

Every check to SDPWS 2021, NDS 2024, AISC 360-22 with its equation, the values that go into it, the result and the code section, and the governing case up front. Results update as you type.

A calculation report a reviewer can follow

Inputs, load combinations, every check with its result and reference, and the governing case, in a clear PDF with your title block.

Drawings

Where the calculation has a shape to draw: elevations, sections and the diagrams, on a sheet with your title block, as PDF or DXF.

Your units, your method

US or metric units at any time, LRFD or ASD where the code offers both; the report follows.

Verification

How the continuous rod tie-down is tested

13worked examples
186values compared
185match
1documented differences, each explained

Against published examples and hand calculations from the code equations, on every change. The method and the sources.

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