CEE 458/558

Design of Timber Structures

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Course Description

CEE 458/558 is a primer course in the theory and design of timber structures.  In this class, the civil engineering student learns the basic behavior of wood as a structural material and the design of a variety of wood structural elements according to the allowable stress design manual by the  American Wood Council.

CEE 353 (Structural Theory) is a prerequisite for CEE 458/558.

Students completing this course should be able to:

• determine design loads according to load combinations prescribed by building codes

• identify the physical and mechanical values of lumber and glued laminated timber

• use tables in ASD manual to select design values for structural sawn lumber and glued laminated timber

• design flexural and axially-loaded members

• design roof, floor, and wall sheathing (out-of-plane loading)

• design horizontal diaphragm and shear wall (in-plane loading)

• design connections

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Click here to view the Spring 2008 course syllabus (PDF file)

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• Test Set #1  posted on: March 6, 2008
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