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...for instructors (engineering, and architecture / building construction) and students...
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Resources for Instructors - Engineering |
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If any of the following are
required texts for your course (North America only), email us at awcinfo@afandpa.org
with the name of the course and expected enrollment to obtain
a desk copy for use in your wood design courses:
FREE
desk copy of the
2005 Wood Design Package
which includes: 2005 NDS
(Standard, Appendix, Supplement,
and Commentary),
ASD/LRFD Manual, 2005
Special Design
Provisions for Wind and Seismic, and ASD/LRFD
Structural Wood Design Solved Problems Manual. Limited
to one free copy per edition of the Manual (not one free edition per course taught).
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Resources for Instructors - Architecture / Building Construction |
If any
of the following are required texts for your course (North America
only), email
us at awcinfo@afandpa.org with the
name of the course and expected enrollment to obtain a desk copy for use
in your wood design courses:
FREE
desk copy of the
Wood Frame Construction Manual 2001 for One-
and Two Family Dwellings - National Edition
which includes: Commentary. Limited to one free copy per edition of the Manual
(not one free edition per course taught).
FREE
download of
the Design of Wood Frame Buildings
for High Wind, Snow, and Seismic Loadings (Wood Frame Construction
Manual Workbook)
which provides a worked design example based on the 2001 WFCM, complete
with plan information, checklists, background material, and extra
blank worksheets; for wind, seismic and snow design of a two-story
residence.
FREE download
of WFCM High Wind Guides.
FREE
download of Details for Conventional Wood Frame Construction.
FREE
downloads of Fire Design publications.
FREE
tutorial for using Span Tables for Joists and Rafters.
FREE
software for determining allowable heights and areas for wood frame construction, Code Conforming Wood Design software.
FREE
downloads of Code Conforming Wood Design publications.
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| Publications
for Students |
Student
copies of all publications can be ordered by you, your instructor, or your
institution's bookstore at info@forestprod.org,
800-890-7732 or 608-232-9354. If you would like to mail in your order,
print out a copy of the Order Form
(in pdf), complete it, and send it in with a check.
Students receive
50% discount off the list price of publications.
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| Additional Educational Resources |
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working version of WoodWorks Design Office Software:
Educational Version which includes WoodWorks Design Office US (Sizer, Connections,
and Shearwalls). Send request to sales@woodworks-software.com
FREE AWC
Standards and Design Tools CD-Rom.
FREE
AWC eCourses for online instruction or scripted handouts in PDF.
FREE
On-line
Wood Education Modules - behavioral animations, graphics, explanatory
text.
FREE USDA
Forest Products Laboratory Wood
Handbook (PDF version)
Forest Products
Laboratory. 1999. Wood handbook--Wood as an engineering material. Gen.
Tech. Rep. FPL-GTR-113. Madison, WI: U.S. Department of Agriculture, Forest
Service, Forest Products Laboratory. 463 p.
FREE Guide to Wood Design Information - an exhaustive first source for Wood Design information.
Distance Education offerings from educators around the country on wood design and behavior topics.
Wood Products Council website - the master website that hosts design, product, and contact information and resources from wood industry associations.
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If you are teaching
a wood course in an engineering, architecture, or construction program
at an accredited college or university, AWC would like to hear from you.
AWC_Education@afandpa.org
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