Structural Timber Design: Timber in Construction, Essential Basics, Advantages, and Key Uses Explained
INTRODUCTION Timber is one of the important construction materials. Wood is used as structural elements in buildings, widely for doors, windows and partitions and find large I use through secondary wood products like plywood, particle boards and laminated boards, etc. Both hard and soft woods are in use. As such defects in this construction material for buildings will affect the structural safety. aesthetic aspects and even functional use including fire protection. Objectives At the end of this unit, you should be able to: -I understand the classification of timber, and - how their properties and the defects in timber along with extensive details concerning the causes for the defects. DEFINITIONS Let us understand the term timber. The word 'timber' is &rived from an old English word. 'timnbrian' which means to build. Timber, thus denotes wood which is suitable for building or carpentry or various other Engineering purposes. The Timber is further t...
