Portland Community College | Portland, Oregon

This course is required for an Associate of Applied Science Degree in Architectural Design and Drafting and Building Inspection Technology.  It is also required for the One Year Certificate in Structural Inspection, Mechanical Inspection, Plans Examiner, and One- and Two-Family Dwelling Code Combination Structural, Mechanical, and Plans Examiner. 

Transferability of credit depends entirely upon the institu­tion to which the student wishes to transfer.

Students must be capable of reading and communicating in the English language and may be required to pass a listening competency test administered by the department.  Students who may have a disability and wish an accommodation should make arrangements to meet with the instructor outside of class to discuss specific requests.  Any request for accommodation may require that documentation of disability be reviewed by the Office for Students with Disabilities

Upon successful completion students should be able to:
Apply theories of structural loading to select and design a basic wood structural system for a residential project.
Communicate with design professionals, clients and engineers using industry specific terminology for residential wood structural members and systems.

• Participation in class work sessions, class discussions and critiques
• Proper and timely completion of class projects, which demonstrate effective use of knowledge
• Evaluation procedures will be presented at the first class meeting.  Student grades will be based on satisfactory com­ple­tion of assigned projects.

Lecture/discussion and lab sessions will be the instructional methods used in this course and will provide the student with the background information necessary to complete the homework assignments.   

STRUCTURAL SYSTEMS:

• Forces and stresses on structural members
• Moments and reactions caused by loads on structural members
• Shearing and bending stresses through the use of shear diagrams
• Types of basic structural members
• Design methods and computational techniques to solve given bending problems

DETERMINATION OF MEMBER LOADING

• Code required minimum live loads
• Common construction dead loads
• Determination of member load
• Total loads for a given structural system
  • Common wood species used in construction
  • Specific wood design values in reference books
  • Joist and Rafters
  • Simple Beams
  • Columns
  • Glu-Laminated timber beams
     

WOOD MEMBER DESIGN