Tuesday, May 17 | |
8:00 am - 9:20 am | Impact of Wood Quality on Physical and Design Properties of Lumber |
9:20 am - 9:35 am | Break |
9:35 am - 10:35 am | Design Values for “Multi-Species and Country Grademarked” Lumber |
10:35 am – 12:00 pm | Design of Loadbearing Tall Wood Studs for Wind and Gravity Loads |
12:00pm - 1:00 pm | Lunch |
1:00 pm - 2:15 pm | Mitigating Wood-Framed Egress Stair Stringer Failures |
2:15 pm - 2:30 pm | Break |
2:30 pm - 3:45 pm | Permanent Truss Bracing: Engineered and Prescriptive Design |
3:45 pm - 5:00 pm | Errors in Substituting Dead Load for Live Load in Wood Design |
Wednesday, May 18 | |
8:00 am - 9:15am | Specifying Roof and Floor Trusses per ANSI/TPI 1-2014 |
9:15 am - 9:30 am | Break |
9:30 am - 10:45 am | Floor Vibration Research Summary and Design Options to Minimize Annoying Vibration Complaints |
10:45 am - 12:00 pm | Tall Mass Timber and the Building Code |
12:00 pm - 1:00 pm | Lunch |
1:00 pm - 2:15 pm | Fire-Resistance Design of Mass Timber Members and Connections |
2:15 pm - 2:30 pm | Break |
2:30 pm - 3:45 pm | Balcony and Deck Design Update per the 2018 IBC/IRC |
3:45 pm - 4:50 pm | Durability Issues—Decay, Insects and Design/Detailing for Durability |
4:50 pm - 5:00 pm | Course Evaluation and Presentation of Certificates |
For more specific information on course content, please contact Dr. Frank Woeste at (540) 951-0469, or e-mail: fwoeste@vt.edu.
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