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| Preface | |
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| Timber as a Structural Material | |
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| Introduction | |
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| The structure of timber | |
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| Types of timber | |
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| Softwoods | |
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| Hardwoods | |
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| Natural characteristics of timber | |
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| Strength grading of timber | |
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| Visual grading | |
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| Machine grading | |
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| Strength classes | |
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| Section sizes | |
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| Engineered wood products (EWP) | |
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| Glued laminated timber (Glulam) | |
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| Plywood | |
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| Laminated veneer lumber (LVL) | |
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| Laminated Strand Lumber (LSL), TimberStrandr | |
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| Parallel Strand Lumber (PSL), Parallamr | |
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| Oriented Strand Board (OSB) | |
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| Particleboards and fibre composites | |
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| Thin webbed joists (I-joists) | |
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| Thin webbed beams (Box beams) | |
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| Structural Insulated Panels (SIPs) | |
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| Suspended timber flooring | |
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| Adhesive bonding of timber | |
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| Preservative treatment for timber | |
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| Fire safety and resistance | |
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| References | |
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| Introduction to relevant Eurocodes | |
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| Eurocodes - General Structure | |
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| Eurocode 0 - Basis of structural design - (EC0) | |
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| Terms and definitions (EC0,1.5) | |
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| Basic Requirements (EC0,2.1) | |
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| Reliability Management (EC0,2.2) | |
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| Design Working Life (ECO,2.3) | |
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| Durability (EC0,2.4) | |
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| Quality Management (EC0,2.5) | |
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| Principles of limit state design - General (EC0,3.1) | |
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| Design Situations (EC0,3.2) | |
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| Ultimate limit states (EC0,3.3) | |
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| Serviceability limit states (EC0,3.4) | |
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| Limit state design (EC0,3.5) | |
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| Classification of actions (EC0,4.1.1) | |
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| Characteristic values of actions (EC0,4.1.2) | |
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| Other representative values of variable actions (EC0,4.1.3) | |
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| Material and product properties (EC0,4.2) | |
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| Structural analysis (EC0,5.1) | |
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| General | |
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| Linear Elastic Analysis (based on linear stress/strain and moment/curvature laws) | |
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| Non-linear Analysis | |
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| Structural analysis requirements for timber and wood based.structures | |
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| Verification by the partial factor method - General (EC0,6.1) | |
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| Design values of actions (EC0,6.3.1) | |
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| Design values of the effects of actions (EC0,6.3.2) | |
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| Design values of material or product properties (EC0,6.3.3) | |
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| Load duration classes | |
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| Service classes | |
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| Factors applied to a Design strength at the ULS | |
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| Design values of geometrical data (EC0,6.3.4) | |
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| Design resistance (EC0,6.3.5) | |
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| Ultimate limit states (EC0,6.4.1to6.4.5) | |
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| Serviceability limit states - General (EC0,6.5) | |
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| Vibration | |
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| Deflection | |
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| Eurocode 5: Design of timber structures - Part 1-1: General - Common rules and rules for buildings (EC5) | |
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| General matters | |
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| Serviceability limit states (EC5, 2.2.3) | |
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| Load duration and moisture content influences on strength (EC5, 2.3.2.1) | |
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| Load-duration and moisture influences on deformations (EC5, 2.3.2.2) | |
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| SLS Analyses | |
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| ULS Analyses | |
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| Stress-Strain relations (EC5, 3.1.2) | |
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| Size and stress distribution effects (EC5, 3.2, 3.3, 3.4 and 6.4.3) | |
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| System Strength (EC5, 6.6) | |
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| Symbols | |
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| References | |
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| Using Mathcadr for Design Calculations | |
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| Introduction | |
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| What is Mathcad ? [1] | |
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| What does Mathcad do ? [2] | |
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| A simple calculation [2] | |
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| Definitions and variables [2] | |
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| Entering text [2] | |
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| Working with units [2] | |
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| Commonly used Mathcad functions | |
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| Maximum and minimum values | |
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| Conditional statement | |
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| Summary | |
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| References | |
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| Design of members sub | |