Overview
Lumber sawn from a log, regardless of species and size, is quite variable in mechanical properties. Pieces of lumber sawn from the same log may differ in strength by several hundred percent. For ease of use, lumber with the same mechanical properties are placed in categories, commonly known as stress grades. This course is intended to provide the student with an understanding of how lumber is graded and how the mechanical properties can be adjusted for design use.
In this course, the student will review Chapter 6, Lumber Stress Grades and Design Properties from General Technical Report FPL-GTR-113, “Wood Handbook – Wood as an Engineering Material” published by the Forest Products Laboratory, USDA Forest Service (issued March 1999).
The student must take a multiple-choice quiz consisting of ten (10) questions at the end of this course to earn PDH credits.
Specific Knowledge or Skill Obtained
This course teaches the following specific knowledge and skills:
- Responsibilities and Standards for Stress Grading
- Visually Graded Structural Lumber
- Machine-Graded Structural Lumber
- Adjustment of Properties for Design Use
Course
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Lumber Stress Grades and Design Properties
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