Engineered Wood Products Design and Construction Seminar
Agenda
Registration: 8:00 – 8:30 am
Morning Session: 8:30 am – 12:00 pm
Lunch (On your own): 12:00 – 1:00 pm
Afternoon Session: 1:00 – 4:00 pm
Wood as a Unique Engineering Material
Physical properties
Improved properties of engineered wood products
• Wood panels: plywood, oriented strand board (OSB) and
cross-laminated timber
• Structural composite lumber: laminated veneer lumber (LVL);
parallel strand lumber (PSL); laminated strand lumber (LSL);
and oriented strand lumber (OSL)
• I joist
• Glued-laminated timber
Reasonable standard of care – labels
Calculating wood’s response to moisture changes
Design Values and Design Equations
Design values
• Traditional
• Machine rated
• Engineered wood products
Adjustment factors
Structural design equations and examples
Floor vibrations and creep
Glued-Laminated Timber
Balanced vs. unbalanced
Recommended vs. poor details
Radial tension
Metal Plate-Connected Trusses
Design responsibility
Truss design drawings
Connections
Lateral
• Lateral failure modes
• Five percent offset value
• Yield limit equations
Withdrawal
Power driven nails
Design examples
Credits
Engineers
6.0 CPE Hours/PDHs
Architects
6.0 HSW CPE Hours/CE Hours
6.0 AIA Learning Units
Contractors
Non-Credit Continuing Ed
Continuing Education Credit Information
This seminar is open to the public and offers 6.0 continuing professional education hours/PDHS to engineers and 6.0 HSW CPE/CE hours for architects in Kentucky and all other states, except Florida architects. Educators and courses are not subject to preapproval in Kentucky.
This event is approved by the American Institute of Architects Continuing Education System for 6.0 HSW Learning Units (Sponsor No. J885). Only full attendance can be reported to the AIA/CES.
HalfMoon Education is deemed an approved architect continuing education sponsor in New York. HalfMoon Education is an approved continuing education sponsor for engineers in Florida, Indiana, Maryland, New Jersey (Approval No. 24GP00000700), New York (NYSED Sponsor No. 35), North Carolina, and North Dakota.
This seminar offers a non-credit continuing education opportunity to construction contractors. It is not approved by any state licensing entity for contractor continuing education credit.
Attendance will be monitored and attendance certificates will be available after the seminar for most individuals who complete the entire event. Attendance certificates not available at the seminar will be mailed to participants within fifteen business days.
Speakers
Patrick McGuire
Patrick M. McGuire, P.E., S.E., has served the public as a structural engineer since his graduation from the University of Louisville in 1974 with a Master of Civil Engineering degree. He has worked in the wood products and related industries since 1979 and is currently practicing as an independent consultant. He is very lucky to have worked for generous employers who encouraged him to grow his expertise and to share it with others through participation in professional and trade associations such as the Wood Truss Council of America, the Truss Plate Institute, the American Society of Agricultural Engineers, the American Society of Civil Engineers and the National Frame Builders Association. Mr. McGuire has published several technical articles on wood-related design.