> ## Documentation Index
> Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://calcs.com/docs/llms.txt
> Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further.

# Wood Beams

> Calculators and guides for wood beams, members and roof ties to NDS 2024.

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  <Card title="Design a Wood Beam (ASD) to NDS 2024" icon="pencil" href="/docs/calculators/us/beams/timberBeamASDNDS-2024">
    Design wood beams to NDS 2024 (ASD): bending, shear, bearing and three deflection limits, with multi-ply and flitch plate options.
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  <Card title="Design a Wood Beam (LRFD) to NDS 2024" icon="calculator" href="/docs/calculators/us/beams/timberBeamLRFDNDS-2024">
    NDS 2024 LRFD wood beam: bending, shear, bearing, three deflection checks with conversion and time effect factors. Multi-ply, flitch plate, inclined.
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  <Card title="Design a Wood Member (Design Only - ASD) to NDS 2024" icon="calculator" href="/docs/calculators/us/beams/timberMemberASDNDS-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.
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  <Card title="Design a Wood Roof Tie (ASD) to NDS 2024" icon="map" href="/docs/calculators/us/beams/timberRoofTieASDNDS-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.
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  <Card title="Design a Wood Roof Tie (LRFD) to NDS 2024" icon="calculator" href="/docs/calculators/us/beams/timberRoofTieLRFDNDS-2024">
    NDS 2024 LRFD roof tie. Factored tie tension and rafter limit states - bending, shear, bearing, deflection - with φt, φb, KF, λ. Load linking.
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  <Card title="Design a Flitch Beam" icon="pencil" href="/docs/calculators/us/beams/flitch-beam-design">
    Design a flitch beam, a wood beam with one or more attached steel plates, using a modular ratio in the Wood Beam calculator.
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### Guides and Examples

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  <Card title="Use the US Wood Beam Calculator: Basic Guide" icon="map" href="/docs/calculators/us/beams/wood-beam-basic-guide">
    Use the US Wood Beam calculator: size and grade selection, supports, load inputs, and reading moment, shear and deflection results.
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  <Card title="Interpret and Optimize Wood Beam Results" icon="ruler" href="/docs/calculators/us/beams/wood-beam-interpreting-optimizing-results">
    Read the four wood beam checks (bending, shear, deflection and bearing) in Calcs.com and find ways to optimize the design.
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  <Card title="Wood Beam Validation Examples" icon="wood" href="/docs/calculators/us/beams/wood-beam-validation-example">
    Validation examples for wood beams (ASD and LRFD) to NDS 2018: Calcs.com moment, shear and deflection results compared with textbook results.
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  <Card title="Design Joists, Rafters, and Ridge Beams to NDS 2018" icon="pencil" href="/docs/calculators/us/beams/design-wood-beam-including-joists-rafters-ridge-beams">
    Design simple and complex span wood joists, rafters and ridge beams to NDS with the Calcs.com Wood Beam calculator, ASD or LRFD.
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  <Card title="Match Proprietary Glulam Products to Grades (United States)" icon="book" href="/docs/calculators/us/beams/proprietary-glulam-products-grade-matching">
    Proprietary Glulam Products Grade Matching
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  <Card title="Use Treated (Wolmanized) PSL Products" icon="book" href="/docs/calculators/us/beams/using-treated-wolmanized-psl-products">
    Using Treated (Wolmanized) PSL Products
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