Wood bracing shear walls are usually installed in not only residential houses but also medium or large-scale wooden buildings. It is no problem to provide bracings in residentials. But, in case of providing bracings in medium or large-scale wooden buildings, it will be difficult that the bracings exert its strength of shear walls which is prescribed in Japanese Building Code. The purpose of this study is to clarify the specification for exerting its strength in medium or large-scale wooden buildings throughout the racking test of full-size shear wall. And the purpose was achieved by this experiment.
