50 – Wood Engineering

The 50-Year Wind

By WoodEngineering Posted on February 28, 2023 Posted in Uncategorized Tagged with 50, barn, building, chance, county, design, force, gust, hazard, idaho, latah, moscow, mph, MRI, probability, Return Interval, safety, shop, speed, structure, velocity, wind, year

Okay, let’s say I’m gonna build a `shop’ near, say, Moscow (Latah County), Idaho, Zip 83843. The big worries there are snow, in winter, and wind, any time of year. For wind, let’s go to https://hazards.atcouncil.org, … `Wind’, and then …

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`Eeee’

By WoodEngineering Posted on March 27, 2022 Posted in Uncategorized Tagged with 50, apart, bar, beam, break, building, compress, compression, deform, deformation, E, Eeee, elastic, elasticity, grade, kip, ksi, mechanics, modulus, MOE, plastic, pounds, psi, pull, push, rod, safe, safety, steel, strain, stress, structural, tensile, tension, textbook, yield, Young's

E (Eeee!) (Steel for now; wood later) E stands for Modulus of Elasticity, or Elastic Modulus, also Young’s Modulus. It is also abbreviated MOE (`Em – Oh – Ee’). By definition it is the amount of stress (tensile or compression) …

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The 50-Year Wind

`Eeee’