Testing the Wind Resistance of Wall Sheathing Panels Used in Wood-Framed Low-Rise Residential Construction

The data .csv files are located in Plywood Tests and OSB Tests folders. Each folder contains 10 test of a wood frame
model that is supposed to represent what an actual wall built in practice would be built as. Each specimen was tested
to failure. This was done to determine a statistical failure capacity of sheathing panel. Two types of sheathing panels
were examined because these are the two types of sheathing panels used in residential construction. These two panels
were compared to see if there was a difference in failure capacity between the two types. There was no statistical
significance between the two types of panel, therefore we combined the results of the 20 tests as one group. The mean
failure capacity was determined to be 4.21 kPa (88 psf). Fragility functions were made using a Monte Carlo Simulation
to compare the probability of a was sheathing panel vs. a roof sheathing panel.