January 2006
by Tim Reinhold
Stronger Nails, Properly Spaced
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Guest Editorial Tim Reinhold Stronger Nails, Properly Spaced Eight dollars. $8. However you write it, that small sum can make a huge difference in the survival of homes exposed to high winds. What does $8 buy? That's the estimated cost of switching to 8d ring-shank nails from 8d smooth-shank nails for a typical 2,000-square-foot house. Literally hundreds of sheathing panels have been tested by the International Hurricane Research Center (IHRC) at Florida International University and at Clemson University, where I was a professor of civil engineering until 2004. The data included individual nail withdrawal values as well as panel tests
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