May 2022 – Wood Engineering

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

By WoodEngineering Posted on May 9, 2022 Posted in Uncategorized Tagged with adjustment, allow, allowable, bolt, buckle, calc, calculate, capacity, center, centric, column, commentary, compression, corner, D-F, design, DF, DF/L, Douglas, eccentric, engineer, factor, fir, framed, framing, grade, height, in, lam, lamination, larch, length, min, minimum, multi, multiple, nail, national, National Design Specification, NDS, parallel, plain, ply, post, ratio, rip, short, slender, slenderness, snap, specification, stability, stable, stress, stud, substitute, Supplement, tall, to grain, trade, value, wall, wood

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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NLT `Mass Timber’ Step

By WoodEngineering Posted on May 4, 2022 Posted in Uncategorized Tagged with 2 x 4, 2 x 6, above, cca, contact, cut, decay, dimension, exposed, farm, fasten, fungi, ground, hammer, impregnated, impregnation, laminated, mass, nail, NLT, outdoor, outside, piece, preservative, pressure, PT, rot, rough, small, termite, timber, treated, treatment

CCA-C `Above Ground’ Preservative Treated Lumber for an NLT Step © Jeff R. Filler, May 2022, Pell City This is so fun I can hardly stand it. I’ll edit later. I am working on some NLT steps for my wife’s …

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Differential Displacements and the SST SDPW Deflector Screw

By WoodEngineering Posted on May 2, 2022 Posted in Uncategorized Tagged with allow, allowable, bearing, code, collapse, crack, cracking, deflection, deflector, design, differential, displacement, floor, girder, gypsum, IBC, inspect, joist, load, movement, rafter, roof, safe, safety, sag, screw, snow, SST, Strong-Tie, townhouse, truss

Differential Deflections … and the Simpson Strong-Tie Strong-Drive® SDPW Deflector Screw (c) Jeff R. Filler, May 2022, Pell City, AL I haven’t tried one out yet … the Simpson Strong-Tie Strong-Drive® SDPW Deflector Screw … but the idea is fascinating …

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Month: May 2022

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

NLT `Mass Timber’ Step

Differential Displacements and the SST SDPW Deflector Screw