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2016-2017 Graduate Academic Catalog 
    
2016-2017 Graduate Academic Catalog [ARCHIVED CATALOG]

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AE 750 - Wood Design

3 lecture hours 0 lab hours 3 credits
Course Description
The course presents the behavior and design of wood structures. Topics include sawn beam and column design; engineered wood beam and column design; design of plywood floors, diaphragms, and shear walls; and connection design. (prereq: none)
Course Learning Outcomes
Upon successful completion of this course, the student will be able to:
  • Be familiar with the material properties and manufacture of sawn and engineered wood products
  • Understand the design of sawn and engineered wood members for flexure, shear, axial and combined axial and flexural loads
  • Understand the selection of plywood for out-of-plane loading
  • Understand the design or horizontal wood diaphragms and vertical wood shear walls
  • Understand the design of bolted connections of wood members
  • Understand the design of nailed connections of wood members
  • Be familiar with other connections of wood members

Prerequisites by Topic
  • Strength of Materials
  • Determinate Structural Analysis
  • Indeterminate Structural Analysis

Course Topics
  • Introduction to Course
  • Introduction to NDS Specification
  • Material Properties and Manufacture of Sawn and Engineered Wood Products
  • Sawn Beam Design

Coordinator
Richard DeVries



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