Author Archives : Steven E. Pryor, P.E., S.E.

About the author ⁄ Steven E. Pryor, P.E., S.E.

Steven E. Pryor, P.E., S.E. (spryor@strongtie.com), is the International Director of Building Systems at Simpson Strong-Tie® Company, Inc., in Pleasanton, California.

Performance-Based Seismic Retrofit of Soft-Story Woodframe Buildings

As early as 1970, the structural engineering and building safety community recognized that a large number of two-, three- and four-story woodframe buildings, designed with the first floor used either for parking or commercial space, were built with readily identifiable structural deficiencies, referred to as a “soft story”. Often these buildings also have a strength deficiency when compared to the stories above, in which case they are also classified as “weak”. …

Jun, 2014 By Pouria Bahmani, A. ASCE, John W. van de Lindt, Ph. D., F. ASCE, Steven E. Pryor, P.E., S.E., Gary L. Mochizuki, P.E., S.E., LEED AP, Mikhail Gershfeld, S.E., Douglas Rammer, P.E., Jingjing Tian and Michael D. Symans, Ph.D. In Articles, Structural Performance Comments 1

Testing Tension-Only Steel Anchor Rods Embedded in Reinforced Concrete Slabs

Starting in 2008, members of the project team, along with others, performed tests to show that the American Concrete Institute (ACI) 318-11 Appendix D concrete shear capacities for steel anchor bolts with small edge distances connected to wood sill plates were extremely low compared to actual tested values. …

Mar, 2014 By W. Andrew Fennell, P.E., CPEng, SECB, Gary L. Mochizuki, P.E., S.E., LEED AP, Kevin S. Moore, P.E., S.E., SECB, Steven E. Pryor, P.E., S.E. and Geoffrey A. Laurin In Articles, Structural Testing Comments 0

Seismic Testing

Seven-Story Mixed-Use Steel and Wood Light-Frame Structure

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Jun, 2010 By Steven E. Pryor, P.E., S.E., John W. van de Lindt, Ph. D., F. ASCE and Shiling Pei, Ph.D. In Articles, Structural Testing

Multi-Story Light-Frame Construction

Understanding Continuous Tiedown Systems

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Jun, 2006 By Avik Ghosh, M.S., P.E., Steven E. Pryor, P.E., S.E. and Ricardo Arevalo, P.E., S.E. In Articles, Construction Issues

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