Design Fundamentals of Heavy Timber and Sawn Wood Construction (Webinar)

In Design Fundamentals of Heavy Timber and Sawn Wood Construction , you'll learn ...

• Why wood is an important building material and how it compares to steel
• The National Design Specification for Wood Construction (NDS)
• The design of mechanical connections used in heavy timber or sawn wood

Overview

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The 2018 National Design Specification for Wood Construction (NDS) has been adopted by all model building codes in the United States. It is currently in compliance with the 2018 International Building Code (IBC) and the 2018 International Residential Code (IRC) and is used for the design of wood structures worldwide.

Design Fundamentals of Heavy Timber and Sawn Wood Construction will explain the use of the NDS and will explain the various components of the guidelines.

In this interactive webinar, we will apply NDS guidelines to specific examples and sample problems of wood construction in order to determine the adjustment factors for specified design values as they relate to conditions of use (temperature, load duration, moisture), member geometry, and member stability.

The instructor, a licensed professional engineer and building inspector, provides the kind of insight that comes from many years working with the NDS guidelines with the ultimate goal of providing civil or structural engineers with general design knowledge of the wood elements typically employed in residential and mixed-use construction.

Learning Objectives

Upon completion of this course, participants will be able to:

• Apply relevant principles to how wood structural elements differ from steel or concrete under standard loading conditions.
• Explain the advantages of using wood structural elements as opposed to steel or reinforced concrete.
• Identify types of wood typically used in construction and the member properties of those wood types (e.g., allowable stress, modulus of elasticity, orientation of the grain, and direction of loading).
• Interpret and understand grade markings and the grading process.
• Design bending members subject to flexural loads (i.e., solid, simple wood beams) using allowable stress design (ASD) and load and resistance factor design (LRFD) methods.
• Develop a design approach for compression members subject to axial loads (i.e., solid, simple wood columns) using allowable stress design (ASD) and load and resistance factor design (LRFD) methods.
• Evaluate design requirements for a beam or column subjected to combined flexural and axial loading (end loads, side loads, and eccentric loads).
• Describe the design of nail or spike connections, screw connections, lag bolt connections, and through-bolt connections utilizing steel side or gusset plates.