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6 x 6 sawn post vs 3-ply 2 x 6

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6 x 6 wood post versus 3-ply 2 x 6 © Jeff R. Filler, May 2022, Pell City (DRAFT) If you are an a professional engineer providing designs (or fixes) for wood-frame construction, sooner or later you will be asked, …

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Accuracy of Deflection Calcs (and Eee)

By WoodEngineering Posted on April 1, 2022 Posted in Uncategorized Tagged with accuracy, accurate, allowable, beam, bend, calc, calculation, coefficient of variation, COV, deflection, E, elasticity, glulam, joist, load, lumber, modulus, modulus of elasticity, MOE, National Design Specification, NDS, rafter, sag, sawn, simple, span, variability, wood

In the example above (link) we calculated a deflection of 0.599 in. How accurate is this number? (I showed it to three significant figures … accurate to half a percent?) Leaving out, for now, the accuracy/precision of the other input, …

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6 x 6 sawn post vs 3-ply 2 x 6

Accuracy of Deflection Calcs (and Eee)