Wood
Chair: Rakesh Gupta

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.

Performance of Wood Structures
Chair: Jeffrey Langlois

Purpose:

Develop tools and guidelines to document and evaluate performance of various structural and envelope systems in an effort to improve durability and resiliency of wood structures.

Design of Wood Structures
Chair: Yue Li
Purpose:

To define the future of the design of wood structures including transitioning from allowable stress design to LRFD, enhancing the present design standards, and enabling efforts to incorporate performance-based approaches into wood design.


Wood Education
Chair: Steve Cramer

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.

Wood Research
Chair: Vijaya (V.J.) Gopu

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.

The Wood Engineering Research Committee organized a workshop at the 2008 Structures Congress on Wood Engineering Research Challenges in the New Millennium - Critical Research Needs. Click here to download a copy of the report. To receive a hard copy contact Susan Reid, SEI TAD Program Coordinator.