Prefabricated building construction

DETAILED DESCRIPTION The present inventions provides an improved building structure which eliminates some of the shortcomings of prior art buildings discussed above.
Generally speaking, a building constructed in accordance with the present invention comprises the conventional spaced apart, parallel building walls spanned by a roof.
The roof-to-building wall connection, however, is defined by a connector constructed of corrugated sheet which spans the length of the building and which is curved in the direction of the sheet corrugations.
One end of the connector is connected with the building wall while the other end of the connector is connected with the building roof so that the corrugated sheet connector forms the weight carrying and force transmitting member between the roof and the wall.
This construction of the building wall-to-roof connection, and the absence of a wall/roof panel supporting frame structure eliminates the earlier discussed stress concentrations.
Accordingly, a building constructed in accordance with this invention is capable of more efficiently and safely withstanding wind or earthquake forces than comparable prior art buildings.
It is preferred that each building wall be constructed of a plurality of relatively narrow, substantially aligned and interconnected wall panels, each panel comprising a corrugated plate having corrugations that are dimensioned to be complementary to the corrugations of the connector.
It is further preferred that the connector be integrally constructed with and that it define the upper end of the wall panels.
The lower end of the walls is secured to a building foundation; in a preferred embodiment of the invention by extending the wall into the foundation.
The building roof is also constructed of corrugated, relatively narrow panels, each panel having the same corrugations as the connectors and the wall panel.
The roof panel is normally defined by two inclined panel sections that slope downwardly from a curved roof crown to the point of connection with the curved wall connector