Abstract: The construction industry faces a major shortfall in needed technical manpower over the upcoming decades due to demographic trends. There will be fewer college‐age students in the educational pipeline, and a higher percentage ...

Abstract: This note presents a procedure that basically consists of the following: (1) The detection, as the step-by-step integration advances, of changes in load-deformation behavior; (2) the determination of the precise times at ...

Abstract: Current capabilities of accurately predicting the behavior of the various subassemblies of light‐frame wood structures (walls, floors, and roofs) now meet (or exceed) the ability to characterize material properties. However, ...

Abstract: The pattern of engineering education, which typically requires four years for completion of a degree that allows entry to practice, is put in perspective by comparing it with educational requirements for other professions. ...

Abstract: The increased emphasis on limit state design philosophy calls for a corresponding emphasis on the behavior of structural systems up to their ultimate load‐carrying capacities. Fifteen full‐size wood‐joist floors—each having ...

Abstract: An advanced grade control course is described as a model for industry involvement in special topics educational offerings. Several unique aspects of these courses were the lack of textbooks on the topic, little previously ...