HB108 Timber Design Handbook

This book has been written as a basic timber text for Civil Engineers.  It has been targeted at undergraduate civil engineers and provides a comprehensive set of notes on the behaviour and design of timber structural members.  It will also prove valuable to practicing designers.  While its focus is on timber engineering, it is a valuable reference for Architects, particularly those whose interest is in structural behaviour.

 

 

The Handbook can be specified as a text, or held in the library as a useful reference. Copies can be purchased from Standards Australia www.standards.com.au.

 

 

The book is ideal for lecturers and students as it is written in a clear, explanatory style.  The handbook presents material in such a way that the user develops an intuitive understanding of the behaviour of timber, and includes:

• Easy to use tables and flow charts
• Step-by-step design summaries
• Illustrations and worked examples using Australian Standards
• Comprehensive table of contents and index
• Practice problems

 

 

Some of the topics include :

 

• Properties of structural timber (including grading, durability, treatment)
• Design process – limit states design for serviceability and strength
• Actions – permanent, imposed, wind etc
• Design of tension members
• Design of compression members
• Design of bending members
• Design of connections

 

 

HB108 – Timber Design Handbook complements the use of AS1720.1-1997, Timber Structures Part 1: Design Methods.  The handbook gives clear advice for the design of timber members and connections for Australian conditions.  It explains the unique properties, behaviour and modelling of timber, and addresses the basic processes of structural design relating to the use of AS1720.1.

 

HB108 is in the process of being revised to reflect changes in AS/NZS1170-2002 Structural Design Actions.  However, the changes to this Standard have not yet been completed.