The Library - Free Publication Downloads

Please read free download and hyperlink permission statements.

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 - (Free to View Only)

• 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
• DA 8 - Interior Shear Walls (5 pages 85 KB PDF) November 2007

Fact Sheets

• 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

Technical Articles and Papers by Others

Shear Walls

• Cyclic Tests of Engineered Shear walls Considering Different Plate Washer Sizes - Oregon State University
• Cyclic Tests of Engineered Shear Walls with Different Bottom Plate and Anchor Bolt Washer Sizes (Phase II) - Oregon State University
• Cyclic Tests of Long Shear Walls with Openings - Virginia Tech
• Monotonic Tests of Long Shear Walls with Openings - Virginia Tech
• Monotonic Tests of Wood-frame Shear Walls with Various Openings and Base Restraint Configurations - Virginia Tech
• Sequential Phased Displacement Cyclic Tests of Wood-frame Shear Walls with Openings and Base Restraint Configurations - Virginia Tech
• Sequential Phased Displacement Tests of Wood-framed Shear Walls with Corners - Virginia Tech

Connections

• Connection Design Methodology for Structural Composite Lumber - Virginia Tech
• Determination of Short-Term Duration-of-Load Performance of Nailed and Bolted Connections Using Sequential Phased Displacement Tests, Volume I: Summary Report - Virginia Tech
• Monotonic and Cyclic Tests To Determine Short-Term Duration Performance of Nail and Bolt Connections, Volume 1 Summary - Virginia Tech

Floor Vibration

• Reducing Floor Vibrations

Outdoor Decks, Balconies, Porches

• Safe and Durable Coastal Decks

Design Standard Supplements and Commentaries

• 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)
• 1997 NDS Commentary
• 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)

 

 

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
• Special Inspections for Wood Construction (5 pages, PDF, 78 KB) August 2008

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

Special Design Provisions for Wind and Seismic Standard

• 2005 Special Design Provisions for Wind and Seismic (SDPWS)(3 pages, PDF, 75 KB) April 2006
• 2008 Special Design Provisions for Wind and Seismic (6 pages, PDF, 173 KB) November 2008
• Use of Wood Structural Panels to Resist Combined Shear and Uplift from Wind (6 pages, PDF, 2.5 MB) Summer 2010

Perforated Shear Walls

• Perforated Shear Wall Design Approach (17 pages, PDF, 63 KB) December 1994
• Perforated Shear Wall Design Method (5 pages PDF, 114 KB) October 1996
• Perforated Shear Wall Design (9 pages PDF, 57 KB) April 2000
• Perforated Shear Wall Design (9 pages PDF, 666 KB) June 2002

Wind

• ASCE 7-10 Wind Provisions and Effects on Wood Design and Construction (10 pages PDF, 404 KB)
• 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

• Seismic Requirements for Wood Building Design - Recent Changes to ASCE 7 and IBC (3 pages, PDF, 66 KB) April 2006
• Benchmarking Seismic Base Shear to Historical Practice (5 pages, PDF, 94 KB) April 2006
• Seismic Equivalence Parameters for Engineered Woodframe Wood Structural Panel Shear Walls (7 pages, PDF, 133 KB) August 2008

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

Fire

• Addition of Generic, Tested Fire Assemblies in the 2001 ASD Guideline for Wood I-Joists (3 pages PDF, 1340 KB) December 2002
• Calculating the Superimposed Load on Wood-Frame Walls for ASTM E119 Standard Fire-Endurance Tests (4 pages PDF, 147 KB) September 2008

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

Workbooks

• Wood Frame Construction Manual Workbook: Design of Wood Frame Buildings for High Wind, Snow, and Seismic Loadings (PDF) March 2004 

Span Tables - (Free to View Only)

• 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)

Reading PDF Files on this Website

You will need the latest version of Adobe Reader to read the PDF files on this site. Download the latest version of Adobe Reader free.