Wood 101
Wood 101
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I need to talk about wood 101 for Entry Level Engineers and CAD Designers in my office. This will go about an hour. I am wondering how do I start? What types of information about wood design I can talk about? I would appreciate your suggestions based on what you would do or you had done in this situation.






RE: Wood 101
The best way to test something is to squeeze it, slowly, until it breaks!
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Good Luck
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Then you need to spend most of the time discussing the various connections used in timber construction. In timber, it is all about the connections.
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JB
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Mike McCann
MMC Engineering
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Don Phillips
http://worthingtonengineering.com
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For the drafters, discussions may include company standards and symbols related to wood construction, company detailing defaults (unless engineers tell them or mark-up otherwise), completing the load path in the details.
For engineers, most of the detailed design examples can be found in textbooks. A presentation without numbers that talk about the various types of wood members (sawn lumber, glued-lam, wood I-joists/trusses, engineered wood products), various types of sheathing (plywood, osb, gyp), manufactured and custom wood connectors, how to layout shear walls and how the lateral force is distributed into the foundation, etc. may be of more benefit.
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Time related strength properties
Creep
Shrinkage
Durability
Also the fact that a 2x4 is not 2" by 4" and why.
Only then would I go into conventional framing techniques, types of members and types of connections. How does a timber building stand up against gravity and the wind.
Final topic (and most important) - common design/construction problems with timber construction and how to avoid them.