Timber & Masonry Design

What you'll learn

• Explain how the structure, grading and moisture content of wood determine its properties, and apply the NDS adjustment factors for load duration, wet service, size and repetitive members in ASD and LRFD.
• Design sawn lumber joists and glulam beams for bending, shear, bearing, deflection, creep and lateral stability, and recognize when stiffness governs.
• Design timber columns for buckling and timber members for combined bending and axial load, including effective lengths about each axis.
• Design cross-laminated timber panels with effective stiffness and shear deflection, and calculate the fire resistance of glulam and CLT members from char depth and the residual section.
• Design bolted, nailed and screwed wood connections with the yield model, accounting for the angle of load to grain, spacing and edge distances, group effects and splitting.
• Design wood-frame diaphragms and shear walls for wind with the SDPWS, including unit shears, chord forces, nail spacing and hold-down forces.
• Select masonry units, mortar and grout, compute section properties of hollow and grouted walls, and establish the specified compressive strength by the unit strength or prism test method of TMS 602.
• Design unreinforced and reinforced masonry walls for out-of-plane bending, including the effective compression width of partially grouted walls and reinforcement limits.
• Design loadbearing masonry walls for axial load, eccentricity, wind and second-order P-delta effects with cracked and uncracked stiffness.
• Design reinforced masonry shear walls for in-plane shear and flexure, and explain how ductility, stiffness and minimum reinforcement govern lateral systems.
• Lay out control and expansion joints and detail masonry veneers, ties, flashing and weeps for movement, water management and cold-climate durability.
• Assemble and review a design package for timber and masonry buildings, including the design basis, member schedule, missing load cases, drawings and construction quality assurance.