Design a Wood Beam (ASD) to NDS 2024
Design wood beams to NDS 2024 (ASD): bending, shear, bearing and three deflection limits, with multi-ply and flitch plate options.
Design a Wood Beam (LRFD) to NDS 2024
NDS 2024 LRFD wood beam: bending, shear, bearing, three deflection checks with conversion and time effect factors. Multi-ply, flitch plate, inclined.
Design a Wood Member (Design Only - ASD) to NDS 2024
Design wood truss chords and frame members to NDS 2024 ASD. Combined axial and biaxial bending per Eq. 3.9-3, stability factor Cp, all adjustment factors.
Design a Wood Roof Tie (ASD) to NDS 2024
Design wood collar ties, rafter ties and ridge straps for gable roofs to NDS 2024 (ASD), with tie tension and all rafter limit state checks.
Design a Wood Roof Tie (LRFD) to NDS 2024
NDS 2024 LRFD roof tie. Factored tie tension and rafter limit states - bending, shear, bearing, deflection - with φt, φb, KF, λ. Load linking.
Design a Flitch Beam
Design a flitch beam, a wood beam with one or more attached steel plates, using a modular ratio in the Wood Beam calculator.
Guides and Examples
Use the US Wood Beam Calculator: Basic Guide
Use the US Wood Beam calculator: size and grade selection, supports, load inputs, and reading moment, shear and deflection results.
Interpret and Optimize Wood Beam Results
Read the four wood beam checks (bending, shear, deflection and bearing) in Calcs.com and find ways to optimize the design.
Wood Beam Validation Examples
Validation examples for wood beams (ASD and LRFD) to NDS 2018: Calcs.com moment, shear and deflection results compared with textbook results.
Design Joists, Rafters, and Ridge Beams to NDS 2018
Design simple and complex span wood joists, rafters and ridge beams to NDS with the Calcs.com Wood Beam calculator, ASD or LRFD.
Match Proprietary Glulam Products to Grades (United States)
Proprietary Glulam Products Grade Matching
Use Treated (Wolmanized) PSL Products
Using Treated (Wolmanized) PSL Products