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, is developed
based on the Performance Standard for APA EWS Rim Boards, APA PRR 401, which
has been in use by the engineered woods industry in North America since 1994.
The names of the ANSI/APA PRR 410 Committee members when the standard is
published are as follows. The current list of the committee membership is available from
the committee secretariat upon request.
Name Affiliation
Guy Anderson Boise Cascade LLC
Mark Aucoin Momentive Specialty Chemicals, Inc.
Zhaozhen Bao TECO
Kevin Blau Tolko Industries, Inc.
Zhiyong Cai USDA Forest Products Lab Vice Chair
Dan Cheney iLevel by Weyerhaeuser
Bruno Di Lenardo Canadian Construction Materials Centre
Gary Ehrlich NAHB
Bill Gareis Ashland Chemical
Mark Hutnik Huntsman
Joe Kaiserlik Georgia-Pacific Corporation Chair
Ken Lau Ainsworth Lumber Company
John Marson Norbord, Inc.
Edward Pacylowski Pro-Built Construction, Inc.
Sheldon Shi Mississippi State Univ.
Jason Smart ICC Evaluation Service, Inc.
Darin Thompson Timber Products Inspection, Inc.
Phil Vacca Louisiana-Pacific Corporation
Randy Webb PSI
Blair Wilding Arclin
B.J. Yeh APA The Engineered Wood Association Secretariat
In 2011, the Standard Committee revised the standard for consistency with ASTM
D7672, which applies to proprietary wood rim board products.
Inquiries or suggestions for improvement of this standard should be directed to:
Secretariat, ANSI/APA PRR 410
APA The Engineered Wood Association
7011 South 19
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Street
Tacoma, WA 98466
www.apawood.org
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Appendix B. ASD-to-LSD Conversion Factors (Non-Mandatory)
B1. Horizontal Load Capacities (H)
Note: The conversion factor for rim board horizontal load capacities follows the same
procedures used to convert the shearwall values published in Clause 9 of CSA O86.
LSD: |K
D,LSD
H
LSD,standard-term
> o
Q
Q [B1-1]
ASD: H
ASD,short-term
> Q [B1-2]
where
| = resistance factor = 0.7 for nailed shearwalls and rim boards
K
D,LSD
= LSD load duration factor = 1.15 for LSD short-term loading
o
Q
= LSD load factor = 1.5 for wind
Q = applied load
H
LSD,standard-term
= LSD specified horizontal load capacity for LSD standard-term load
duration
H
ASD,short-term
= ASD allowable horizontal load capacity for ASD short-term load
duration
From Equations B1-1 and B1-2,
|H
LSD,standard-term
=
term short ASD
LSD D
Q
H
K
,
,
o
=
term short ASD
H
,
15 . 1
5 . 1
= 1.304 H
ASD,short-term
[B1-3]
As a result, the conversion factor for the factored horizontal load capacities, |H
LSD
, is
1.304. Note that the converted |H
LSD
is based on LSD standard-term but not short-term
load duration.
B2. Uniform Vertical Load Capacities (V)
LSD: |K
D,LSD
V
LSD
> o
D
Q
D
+ o
L
Q
L
[B2-1]
ASD: K
D,ASD
V
ASD
> Q
D
+ Q
L
[B2-2]
where
| = resistance factor = 0.95 for compression member
K
D,LSD
= LSD load duration factor = 1.0 for LSD standard-term loading
V
LSD
= LSD specified uniform vertical load capacity for standard-term load
duration
o
D
= LSD dead load factor = 1.25
Q
D
= applied dead load
o
L
= LSD live load factor = 1.5
Q
L
= applied live load
K
D,ASD
= ASD load duration factor = 1.15 under roof snow load
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V
ASD
= ASD allowable uniform vertical load capacity for ASD normal load
duration
Assuming Q
L
/Q
D
= , from Equations B2-1 and B2-2,
|V
LSD
=
ASD ASD D
LSD D
L D
V K
K
,
,
) 1 (
o o
+
+
[B2-3]
When calibrated to Q
L
/Q
D
= = 4.0 in accordance with the practice adopted by CSA
O86,
|V
LSD
=
ASD
V
+
+
15 . 1
) 4 1 ( 0 . 1
5 . 1 4 25 . 1
= 1.668 V
ASD
[B2-4]
For uniform vertical load capacities, a relative humidity effect factor of 0.85 that is
applied to sheathing panels to account for the difference in the relative humidity of 80%
(the basis for CSA O86) and 65% (the standard relative humidity for ASD) for structural-
use panels given in CSA O86 is not required for rimboards due to the location of the
rimboard within the wall assembly. Therefore, the conversion factor for the factored
uniform vertical load capacities, |V
LSD
, is 1.668.
B3. Concentrated Vertical Load Capacities (P)
The conversion factor for the factored concentrated vertical load capacities, |P
LSD
, is the
same as the factored uniform vertical load capacities: 1.668.
B4. Lag Screw Capacities (Z)
The derivation of lag screw conversion factor follows the same procedures as the
factored uniform vertical load capacities, as shown in Equation B2-4. Therefore, the
LSD factored lag screw capacities, |Z
LSD
, are equal to 1.668 times the ASD lag screw
capacities.