Materials
This package is suitable for students studying Civil Engineering, Architecture, or Building and Construction at University level, or Building and Construction courses at Trade Training level.
The resource can be used by students in a number of ways.
Commercial and industrial structures
- Design
- Strategies for limiting deterioration
- Maintenance
- Stress Laminated decks
- Traffic bridges
- Pedestrian bridges
- Moisture in wood cells
- Moisture in timber
- Equilibrium moisture content
- Shrinkage
- Effects of moisture in timber
- Specification of moisture content
- Timber dimensions
- Utility problems – cup, bow, twist, spring, want, wane
- Weathering
- Chemicals
- Fire
- Insects / Termites
- Fungi
- Marine organisms
- Corrosion
- Mechanical degradation
- Hazard classes
Strategies to improve durability
- Keep timber dry
- Protect timber from sun
- Isolate timber from pests
- Chemical preservative treatments
- Protect timber from fire
- Maintenance
Introduction to Manufactured Wood Products
- Manufacture
- Creative structural members
- Curved and tapered beam
- Cambered beams
- Appearance classes
- Service classes
- Properties
- Specification
- Handling and storage
LVL
- Manufacture
- External cladding
- Interior panels
- Plywood sheets - flooring
- Plywood webs and gussets
- Formwork
- Bracing - shearwalls
- Veneer quality
- Service classes
- Bond quality
- Properties
- Standard sizes and thicknesses
- Specification
- Detailing principles
- Nailed and screwed connections
- Bolted connections
- Dowelled fin-plate connections
- Split ring and shear plate connections