Structure and Wind Diagram Assistance
Has anyone found any helpful material or resources that better explain simple beam questions, truss questions and wind design questions. I took PDD and I had six structure questions and four wind questions. I want to assure myself I am doing the problems/formulas correctly. I find Ballast and Brightwood books to not do enough explaining of the problems and how they got the answers they did. Any suggestions, you tube videos etc.
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Here is the structures reference sheet from http://davidthaddeus.com/
http://www.areforum.org/AREStructures.pdf
I highly recommend his video courses. He guides you through the exact type of questions and concepts on the exam in a time efficient manner. If the $300 price scares you away, you can do what I did and go half and half with a friend who's also studying for this test. Good luck! -
It helps with the concepts as well as the calculations. I guess the amount of structural calculations has been reduced in 5.0, so I'm not sure it's worth $300 unless maybe your office is paying for it or you share the video series with a friend and split the cost. He has many years of experience teaching architecture courses and ARE courses. The previous PDF I linked to is basically all the info you should know for the structures aspect of the PDD test. I passed PPD two weeks ago, I'll be taking PDD in a few days. I can report back here (if I remember) after the test and let you know how helpful the video course was. I binged watched all his videos (30 hours) before my PPD test and I only had maybe 6 questions. So figure out for yourself if spending30 hours watching videos that are only relevant to a handful of questions is right for you. I felt I did the right thing, because I know that structures was my weak point, since at my job I practice most of the other aspects of what's covered on the ARE everyday. The amber book video series was also really good to brush up on building systems.
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