Just a follow-up question.
Is it considered acceptable to assume that a timber framed/SSP wall will act in a shear wall capacity for lateral loads, wind and/or seismic? I've read through some of the work Dick Schmidt has performed and it's clear that the SSPs stiffen a timber framed wall laterally, but I've seen no correlation regarding the response of the timber framed/SSP wall as compared to a conventional shear wall.
