Systems in timber engineering : loadbearing structures and component layers /

An indispensable standard work for everyone involved in building with wood

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Kolb, Josef (Author)
Corporate Authors: DGfH - German Society of Wood Research (Editor); Lignum - Holzwirtschaft Schweiz (Editor); De Gruyter.
Published: Birkhäuser,
Publisher Address: Basel :
Publication Dates: 2008.
Literature type: eBook
Language: English
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Online Access: http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-7643-8690-0
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Summary: An indispensable standard work for everyone involved in building with wood
Carrier Form: 1 online resource (320 pages) : illustrations (some color)
ISBN: 9783764386900 (electronic bk.)
Index Number: TA666
CLC: TU366.2
Contents: Frontmatter --
a Principles. Material-related --
a1 Wood natural building material with potential --
a2 Ecology, sustainable building --
a3 Conception and design --
a4 Material --
b Construction systems. Loadbearing structure, building structure, design --
b1 Overview of systems --
b2 Fabrication processes --
b3 Log construction --
b4 Timber-frame construction --
b5 Balloon frame, platform frame --
b6 Panel construction --
b7 Frame construction --
b8 Solid timber construction --
b9 Roof structures --
b10 Suspended floor structures --
b11 Multi-storey timber buildings --
c Building envelope, walls, suspended floors. Functions, layers, construction --
c1 Fundamentals, functions, tasks --
c2 Design and construction --
c3 External walls --
c4 Pitched roofs --
c5 Flat roofs --
c6 Party walls, internal walls --
c7 Suspended floors --
d Boundary conditions. Moisture content, protecting timber, fire protection --
d1 Moisture content --
d2 Protecting timber --
d3 Fire protection --
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