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wind and prefabricated wooden houses

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RESIST prefabricated houses to the fury of the wind, with no damage?

Hello, I have left doubt about the resilience of wooden houses in tornadoes (do not forget the infamous tropicalization climate). In particular, some companies offer
frame structures like houses built in North America on a platform of reinforced concrete anchoring a wooden base upon which "fit" the poles of the skeleton-frame house.
We are sure they can withstand ?

We start from a trivial consideration first.

technologies on the market for prefabricated homes are many and I can not answer for all companies. not exclude that some kind of anchor, if incorrectly used or inefficient compared to stresses due to strong lateral or upward air currents, could endanger the ground attack the building. But then again, you should check the specific technical solution and this is logically impossible.

said, I focus on the most common type of construction, the frame just . The typical wall of prefabricated wooden houses provides a sandwich-bearing and insulating materials, whose thickness and composition of which depend, again, by specific patents and technical and economic evaluations of the single company of wooden houses.

Personally, for various reasons, I give absolute preference to construction techniques really "prefabricated" , requiring the assembly of the walls inside the establishment provides and works in the yard. The walls in this way, although based on a "light" as the balloon frame, have a high rigidity, which is entirely comparable to the solidity of masonry.

should also be reiterated that other than the particular construction of the walls of prefabricated houses, floors and roofs are traditionally made , like any other building, with beams and planks of wood, concrete slabs and foundation . Other building systems of wooden houses, once again, are not subject to these Articles and to them I do not mean anything, in any way.

The most important aspect to avert risks of collapse in the face of extreme weather events such as tornadoes is undoubtedly anchoring to the ground of prefabricated houses . This happens mostly with clamps or brackets and galvanized steel anchors bolted during assembly, sized according to complex statistical calculations. In areas with high wind intensity would certainly be a good idea to take into account these additional loads, to minimize the risk.

The conjunction between the various walls is finally achieved through interlocking steel rods that operate on threaded bushings, previously inserted in the body wall at various points, connected with just a "male / female."

The problem of wind resistance of prefabricated wooden houses should therefore certainly minimized, but could instead be a serious problem in the case of economic development and approximate techniques.