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Brochures
Technical Publications Brochure (6 pages, 468KB PDF)
Design Professional Membership Brochure (2 pages, 205KB PDF)
High Wind Guides
WFCM High Wind Guide - 90 mph - Exposure B (32 pages) October 2006
WFCM High Wind Guide - 100 mph - Exposure B (32 pages) October 2006
WFCM High Wind Guide - 110 mph - Exposure B (32 pages) October 2006
WFCM High Wind Guide - 120 mph - Exposure B (32 pages) October 2006
WFCM High Wind Guide - 130 mph - Exposure B (32 pages) October 2006
Wood Construction Data (WCD) Series
WCD 1 - Details for Conventional Wood Frame Construction (54 pages) June 2001 
WCD 2 - Tongue and Groove Roof Decking (12 pages) February 2004
WCD 4 - Plank-And-Beam Framing for Residential Buildings (40 pages) April 2003
WCD 5 - Heavy Timber Construction (17 pages) February 2004
WCD 6 - Design of Wood Frame Structures for Permanence (23 pages) February 2006
Technical Report (TR) Series
TR 5 (Legacy 1965) - The Wood Frame House as a Structural Unit (28 pages, 3.9 MB PDF)
TR 7 - formerly titled The Permanent Wood Foundation System - Basic Requirements has been replaced with a new standard: ANSI / AF&PA PWF-2007 - Permanent Wood Foundation Design Specification
TR 8 (Legacy 1975) - Energy Conservation Study - A Performance Comparison of a Wood-Frame and a Masonry Structure (16 pages, 2.0 MB, PDF)
TR 9 (Legacy 1989) - Heat Release Rates of Construction Assemblies (28 pages, 1.1 MB, PDF)
Appendix to TR9 (Legacy 1987) - Fire Performance Characteristics of Protected Wood and Steel Floor-Ceiling Assemblies (24 pages, 7.4 MB PDF)  
TR 10 - Calculating the Fire Resistance of Exposed Wood Members (55 pages, 740KB PDF) January 2003
TR 12 - General Dowel Equations for Calculating Lateral Connection Values (24 pages, 413KB PDF) June 1999
TR 14 - Designing for Lateral-Torsional Stability in Wood Members (43 pages, 496KB PDF) November 2003
Design Aid (DA) Series
DA 1 - Application of Technical Report 12 for Lag Screw Connections (14 pages, 22 KB PDF) February 2007
DA 2 - Toenail Connections (4 pages 103KB PDF) February 2007
DA 4 - Post Frame Rink Shank Nails (6 pages 156 KB PDF) April 2007
DA 5 - Inscribed versus Separate Structures in the WFCM (6 pages 125 KB PDF) April 2007
DA 6 - Beam Design Formulas with Shear and Moment Diagrams (20 pages 464 KB PDF) November 2007 NEW!
DA 8 - Interior Shear Walls (5 pages 85 KB PDF) November 2007 NEW!
Technical Notes
 
FactSheets
Fastener Corrosion (3 pages PDF, 155 KB) August 2005
Mold & Moisture in Homes (1 page PDF, 115 KB) September 2004
Performance of Finger Jointed Lumber in Fire-Resistance-Rated Wall Assemblies (1 page 11KB html) February 2007
Design for Code Acceptance (DCA) Series
DCA 1 - Flame Spread Performance of Wood Products
DCA 2 - Design of Fire-Resistive Exposed Wood Members
DCA 3 - Fire Rated Wood Floor and Wall Assemblies
DCA 4 - CAM for Calculating and Demonstrating Assembly Fire Endurance
DCA 5 - Post-Frame Buildings
DCA 6 - Prescriptive Residential Deck Construction Guide
Code Conforming Wood Design (CCWD) Series 
Commentary on the International Building Code (IBC) Chapter 23 - Wood
Wood Use Provisions in the 1999 SBC and 2000 IBC
Wood Use Provisions in the 1999 BOCA NBC and 2000 IBC
Wood Use Provisions in the 1997 UBC and 2000 IBC
Design Standard Updates / Errata
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Design Standard Supplements and Commentaries
NDS 2005 NDS Supplement - Design Values for Wood Construction (88 pages, 697 KB)
2005 NDS Commentary (102 pages, 1222 KB)
Supplement - 2005 ASD / LRFD Wind / Seismic (44 pages, 1380 KB)
NDS 1997 NDS Commentary
LRFD Supplement - Structural Glued Laminated Timber (100 pages, 1070 KB)
Supplement - Structural Use Panels (48 pages, 1169 KB)
Supplement - 2001 ASD / LRFD Wind / Seismic (33 pages, 1381 KB)
Workbooks
WFCM Wood Frame Construction Manual Workbook: Design of Wood Frame Buildings for High Wind, Snow, and Seismic Loadings (PDF) March 2004  
Span Tables
Wood Structural Design Data 1986 Edition with 1992 Revisions (264 pages)
Span Tables for Joists and Rafters 2005 (41 pages, 331 KB)
Design Values for Joists and Rafters 2005 (25 pages, 204 KB)
Published AWC Articles and Papers
Wood Properties
 
Grade Rules and Grade Stamps (link to ALSC website)
Technical Article - Lumber Solutions Based on Modulus of Elasticity (2 pages, html) January 1998
Building Codes
 
The International Building Code and International Residential Code and Their Impact on Wood-Frame Design and Construction (8 pages PDF, 30 KB) January 2001
The International Building Code and Its Impact on Wood-Frame Design and Construction (8 pages PDF, 34 KB) July 2001
International Residential Code (4 pages PDF, 78 KB) September 2003
Code-Prescribed Limitations of Conventional Construction and How to Mix Conventional with Engineered Design (4 pages PDF, 98 KB) September 2003
International Building Code: More Options with Greater Opportunity for Wood-Frame Design (5 pages PDF, 160 KB) November 2005
NDS
 
Changes in the 2001 NDS® for Wood Construction (6 pages PDF, 1198 KB) July 2002
Designing with Lumber in the 2001 NDS (5 pages PDF, 1425 KB) December 2002
2005 National Design Specification® (NDS®) for Wood Construction (4 pages PDF, 83 KB) December 2004
Changes to the 2005 NDS Supplement - Design Values for Wood Construction (5 pages PDF, 78 KB) December 2004
2005 AF&PA Wood Design Package (4 pages PDF, 71 KB) December 2004
LRFD
 
LRFD versus ASD for Wood Design (4 pages PDF, 32 KB) July 1998
Designing with LRFD for Wood (5 pages PDF, 660 KB) July 2001
Structural Wood Design Using ASD and LRFD (9 pages PDF, 110 KB) December 2004
LRFD versus ASD for Wood Design - Load Combinations Lead to Efficiencies (3 pages PDF, 87 KB) December 2005
Keeping Pace with Evolving Load Standards: Recalibration of LRFD for Wood (4 pages, PDF, 116 KB) April 2006
Lateral Load Resisting Systems
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Seismic
Perforated Shearwall Design Approach (17 pages, PDF, 63 KB) December 1994
Perforated Shearwall Design Method (5 pages PDF, 114 KB) October 1996
Perforated Shearwall Design (9 pages PDF, 57 KB) April 2000
Perforated Shearwall Design (9 pages PDF, 666 KB) June 2002
Considerations in Wind Design of Wood Structures (9 pages PDF, 111 KB) October 2003
An Overview of the 2001 ANSI/AF&PA Wood Frame Construction Manual for One- and Two- Family Dwellings (5 pages PDF, 603 KB) September 2003
Seismic Requirements for Wood Building Design - Recent Changes to ASCE 7 and IBC (3 pages, PDF, 66 KB) April 2006
2005 Special Design Provisions for Wind and Seismic (SDPWS) (3 pages, PDF, 75 KB) April 2006
Benchmarking Seismic Base Shear to Historical Practice (5 pages, PDF, 94 KB) April 2006
Snow
  Snow Provisions in ASCE 7-05 (8 pages PDF, 203 KB) June 2006
Connections
  Is Your Wood Connection All Stressed Out? - It Needn't Be (Appendix E Provisions) (6 pages PDF, 807 KB) December 2002
  Timber Rivet Connections - The Design Process Revealed (25 pages PDF, 683 KB) November 2007 NEW!
Fire
  Addition of Generic, Tested Fire Assemblies in the 2001 ASD Guideline for Wood I-Joists (3 pages PDF, 1340 KB) December 2002
Building Green
 
The Impact of LEED® 2.1 on Wood Markets (10 pages PDF, 33 KB) June 2003
Green Wood: Building Green with Wood (3 pages PDF, 176 KB) July 2005
The Rapid Growth of Green Building Rating Systems and Their Impact on Wood Buildings (10 pages PDF, 745 KB) January 2007
Technical Articles and Papers by Others
Shear Walls
  Cyclic Tests of Long Shear Walls with Openings
  Monotonic Tests of Long Shear Walls with Openings
  Monotonic Tests of Wood-frame Shear Walls with Various Openings and Base Restraint Configurations
  Sequential Phased Displacement Cyclic Tests of Wood-frame Shear Walls with Openings and Base Restraint Configurations
  Sequential Phased Displacement Tests of Wood-framed Shear Walls with Corners
Connections
  Connection Design Methodology for Structural Composite Lumber
  Determination of Short-Term Duration-of-Load Performance of Nailed and Bolted Connections Using Sequential Phased Displacement Tests, Volume I: Summary Report
  Monotonic and Cyclic Tests To Determine Short-Term Duration Performance of Nail and Bolt Connections, Volume 1 Summary
Floor Vibration
  Reducing Floor Vibrations
Outdoor Decks, Balconies, Porches
  Safe and Durable Coastal Decks
 
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