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Dec 03, 2024
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AE 750 - Wood Design3 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: graduate standing)
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
Laboratory Topics
• None appended
Coordinator
Richard DeVries
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