excellent log home engineering articles
for any engineers who do structural engineering for log homes, structures magagine march issue put out by structural engineering institute (sei) has several excellent articles. it gives more insite into the upcoming icc code and gives some recommendations on the seismic response value r to use on log homes. there are about 5 related articles in this issue.
i just engineered my first log home back in october. i found the article on lateral resistance to be very informative.
updated link to march 2006 structures magazine