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KeySol, Could you elaborate on your last statement, "You can use the header to resist shear."? I have used this example before for design and I have always specified the shearwall nailing above the opening to be as the calculations warrant. As you know, the shear can be about 1.5 times the...

Cmfg, Is that an 11' long by 8' tall wall and a 3' long by 4' tall opening?

I know I'm two weeks behind on responding, but here is some info: I was at a seminar a couple of months ago that was put on by a metal plate wood truss manufacturer where pretty much most of the 4-hour presentation was to inform the structural engineers that the permanent lateral bracing of the...