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(More customer reviews)The first item I noticed in reading through this book was the practical design guidance an individual with wood design experience under their belt or someone at university learning it for the first time would be able to pick up and gain a common sense understanding of wood engineering. Every engineering book has its place, this book does and it should be on your desk ready for reference.
Dr. Aghayere and Jason Vigil give you one of the most complete wood design aids that will allow you to learn how to design a wood structure almost sequentially from page one through the end. With hard hit subjects with real-world examples from horizontal diaphrams, vertical diaphrams, flitch beams (rare to find covered), floor vibrations, and even connections.
They are thorough enough to dive into P-delta effects with an explanation (not everyone is a structural engineering scientists) they make concepts attainable for everyone.
Some of their concepts will use the building code requirements as a launch pad but actually go beyond the code requirements creating more durable, long-term effecient structural wood designs (i.e. shearwall design). Remember that the building codes are just a guidance/minimal requirements. Don't just design for today but the future and note that the building code is meant to be exceeded not just matched.
If you don't understand the basis of one of their approaches vs. IBC or some other code email one of them, I am sure they would be more than happy to respond.
This is a book for anyone interested in learning about wood design (they even do a case study) in a concise, practical and thorough matter. You won't be disappointed.
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Structural Wood Design: A Practice-Oriented ApproachA simple, practical, and concise guide to timber design
To fully understand structural design in wood, it is not sufficient to consider the individual components in isolation. Structural Wood Design: A Practice-Oriented Approach Using the ASD Method offers an integrative approach to structural wood design that considers the design of the individual wood members in the context of the complete wood structure so that all of the structural components and connectors work together in providing strength. Holistic, practical, and code-based, this text provides the reader with knowledge of all the essentials of structural wood design:
Wood structural elements and systems that occur in wood structures
Structural loads—dead, live, snow, wind, and seismic—and how to calculate loads acting on typical wood structures
Glued-laminated lumber and allowable stresses for sawn lumber and Glulam
The design and analysis of joists and girders
Floor vibrations
The design of wood members subjected to axial and bending loads
Roof and floor sheathing and horizontal diaphrams
Exterior wall sheathing and wood shear walls
The design of connections and how to use the connection capacity tables in the NDS code
Several easy-to-use design aids for the preliminary sizing of joists, studs, and columns
In keeping with its hallmark holistic and practice-oriented approach, the book culminates in a complete building design case study that brings all the elements together in a total building system design.
Conforming throughout to the 2005 National Design Specification (NDS) for Wood, Structural Wood Design will prepare students for applying the fundamentals of structural wood design to typical projects, and will serve as a handy resource for practicing engineers, architects, and builders in their everyday work.
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