Written by one of the country's leading practitioners and authorities on timber architecture and construction, and featuring chapters by a top wood scientist and several renowned timber engineers, this book may well be the most complete and readable introductory guide ever prepared on modern timber construction. It offers you guidance on every phase of timber construction, from traditional joinery to contemporary materials, and from architectural details to construction strategies, including evaluation and rehabilitation of existing structures. Eminently readable and full of valuable advice, this book provides a conception-to-completion overview essential to anyone interested in or involved with timber construction.
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While written in a conversational tyle, Timber Construction isn't lightweight. In addition to useful drawings and photos, there are also excellent checklists for designers and specifiers. Particularly impressive were the well-illustrated chapters on fasteners, connectors and traditional joinery.
An accomplished architect and specialist in timber design, Goldstein is passionate about the creative potential for architectural expression in heavy-timber structures. Although there is a tremendous volume of technical and practical information here, there is throughout an enthusiasm for the potential of timber construction.
Anyone who works with wood, either as a designer or builder, will find something new, useful and exciting in these inspiring pages. -- Fine Homebuilding
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A well-framed blueprint for success. In use since ancient times, yet gradually supplanted by steel and concrete, timber framing is once again surging in popularity. This comprehensive, hands-on guide, filled with practical architectural, engineering, and construction guidance, brings you up to date on design, materials, codes, and applications. With expertise from a leading timber architect, a top designer/builder of heavy timber frames, a wood scientist, and several renowned timber engineers, this book provides a conception-to-completion professional blueprint essential to anyone interested in or involved with timber construction. You get detailed information to help you: understand wood structure and properties; prevent wood degradation; design for durability; develop traditional and contemporary joinery; configure heavy timber trusses; use new materials, such as fiber-reinforced glulams; plan fabrication and erection, at the shop and in the field; understand engineering/construction interactions; identify maintenance, evaluation, and restoration issues; estimate and bid timber construction projects. PLUS: case studies of existing timber structures; graphs and charts for preliminary design; numerous photographs of details and assemblies.
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Each chapter in this book illustrates some aspect of modern timber engineering. The early chapters introduce the reader to the basic properties of wood. From then on, the reader is treated to subjects such as the depredations of termites, wood construction and fire safety, the value and limitations of mechanical connectors, the use of timber trusses, the earthquake resistance of wooden structures, and the value of shop drawings in construction. The branch-trunk junctions of living trees are an example of moment-resistant joints (Chapter 2, page 13 therein). A good tutorial on the flexure of a beam is provided in Chapter 5 (pp. 15-16 therein). A simple model, consisting of sheets of paper, illustrates how the layers of the beam variously go into compression, tension, and/or shear. There is a chapter (Chapter 7) on traditional joinery, written by Ben Brungraber. The main focus is on mortise-tenon joinery. Chapter 15 discusses covered timber bridges, notably the Town lattice trusses. There is also information about a video on the construction of a modern Town-lattice-truss covered bridge. I have seen this video, and found it quite fascinating. This is not an engineering book. There are only a few sections that are quantitative, and the mathematics used is straightforward and well-described.
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compressive design value, traditional timber joinery, traditional joinery methods, tenoned member, bolt design values, compression design value, mortised member, group action factor, reinforced glulams, timber specifications, fire separation walls, member width, allowable design values, column stability factor, tusk tenon, timber connections, glulam timber, decay hazard, pegged mortise, bolt rows, powderpost beetles, steel side plates, timber design, building trusses, timber strength Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
New York, United States, King Post, The Goldstein Partnership, John Wiley, Town Lattice, North America, Fine Homebuilding, New England, Enterprise Engineering Consultants, Nominal Member Width, Phillip Pierce, Timber Case Studies, Wood Reference Handbook, Fred Severud, Third Edition, Wood Structures, New Timber Building, Second Edition, Technical Note, Timber Construction Manual, Wood Science Specialists Inc, American Institute of Architects, Delaware Aqueduct, Engineering News-Record New!
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compressive design value, traditional timber joinery, traditional joinery methods, tenoned member, bolt design values, compression design value, mortised member, group action factor, reinforced glulams, timber specifications, fire separation walls, member width, allowable design values, column stability factor, tusk tenon, timber connections, glulam timber, decay hazard, pegged mortise, bolt rows, powderpost beetles, steel side plates, timber design, building trusses, timber strength Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
New York, United States, King Post, The Goldstein Partnership, John Wiley, Town Lattice, North America, Fine Homebuilding, New England, Enterprise Engineering Consultants, Nominal Member Width, Phillip Pierce, Timber Case Studies, Wood Reference Handbook, Fred Severud, Third Edition, Wood Structures, New Timber Building, Second Edition, Technical Note, Timber Construction Manual, Wood Science Specialists Inc, American Institute of Architects, Delaware Aqueduct, Engineering News-Record New!
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- Developments in Structural Form by Rowland Mainstone on page 13, and page 457
- Design of Building Trusses (Parker/Ambrose Series of Simplified Design Guides) by James Ambrose on page 263, and page 453
- Eric Sloane's An Age of Barns: An Illustrated Review of Classic Barn Styles and Construction by Eric Sloane on page 1, and page 458
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