Abstract
The 2001 Edition of the National Design Specification (NDS) for Wood Construction has beenpublished and is available from the American Forest & Paper Associations (AF&PA) American Wood Council.Publication of the 2001 NDS culminates 3 years of development by AF&PAs NDS Canvass Committeededicated to providing state-of-the art information for wood design. The 2001 NDS was approved as anAmerican National Standard on November 30, 2001 with a designation ANSI/AF&PA NDS-2001. The 2001 NDS contains many changes and additions from the previous edition, which are summarized in thisarticle. Major updates to this edition of the NDS affect bending member design, connection design, and firedesign using wood. This paper briefly describes each of these updates and more. Complete detailedpresentation of these topics is available from AWCs online eCourse STD103 at www.awc.org.
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