Wood

Purpose:

To initiate research, to evaluate and correlate theories and data bearing on the properties and structural uses of wood, to report conclusions and recommendations from, and to disseminate knowledge concerning wood as an engineering material.

Wood Building Design

Purpose:

To identify and study wood engineering building design problems and to disseminate the findings to the engineering community.

Wood Research

Purpose:

To define the state-of-the-art and the research needs related to the applications of wood to engineered structural applications; to prepare a position statement for publication and distribution through ASCE to provide guidance to researchers, funding agencies, industry and others concerned with efficient use of wood in engineered applications.

Reliability-Based Design of Wood Structures

Purpose:

To define the application of reliability-based concepts for wood-based components and systems, along with methods for incorporating these concepts into practical design provisions.

Wood Education

Purpose:

To promote and develop mechanism for effective structural wood engineering education in the academic and professional arenas by (a) developing educational resources material (teaching tools), (b) by organizing national level wood engineering instructional programs, and (c) fostering wood-design competition for civil engineering students.