CEE 5710
Timber Behavior and Design
This introductory course in timber behavior and design will discuss the materials of timber construction and their incorporation into building components and structural systems.
Topics
- Understand timber as a material; its limitations, strengths, and applications.
- Apply engineering principles to understand the behavior and analysis of timber structures.
- Understand the limit states and their impact on performance of timber in service conditions.
- Describe the behavior of timber assemblies with respect to its environmental conditions including moisture, differential movement, fire, and varying durations of applied load.
Official roster learning outcomes
Prerequisites & course information
background equivalent to: CEE 3710.
Sources
- Course catalogue ↗2026-2027
- Catalogue entry ↗
Catalogue variants
- Timber Behavior and Design · 3.0 · Graduate