2005 National Design Specification (NDS) for Wood Construction

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2005 National Design Specification (NDS) for Wood Construction

  • Wood allowable stress design, used extensively by the truss industry, does note change significantly in the 2005 NDS.
  • One of the key features of the 2005 NDS is the work done to make the NDS more consistent in terminology and clarify sections that have been known to be confusing in the past. 
  • The 2005 NDS has very minimal impact on allowable stress design and has the added benefit of having a transparent approach to learning and using load and resistance factor design.