Systems in Timber Engineering: Loadbearing Structures and Component Layers

✍ Scribed by Josef Kolb (editor); Lignum - Holzwirtschaft Schweiz (editor); DGfH - German Society of Wood Research (editor)

• Publisher: Birkhäuser
• Year: 2008
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 317
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

An indispensable standard work for everyone involved in building with wood

Timber construction has become completely modernized. It has gained considerably in market share with respect to competing building materials and is dominated by systems such as frame and solid timber construction.

Every timber construction is determined by its structure. Hence it is essential to know the connections and relationships from the design stage right through to the construction phase. Systems in Timber Engineering takes a whole new approach to this subject. It is a comprehensive, analytical, and visually organized treatment, from the simple single-family house to the large-scale multistore structure. It includes the building envelope, which is so important for saving energy, and systems for ceilings and interior dividing walls, which are so essential from the vantage point of construction.

This work uses plans, schematic drawings, and pictures to show the current and forward-looking state of the technology as applied in Switzerland, a leading country in the field of timber construction.

• With hundreds of attractive drawings prepared specially for this work

✦ Table of Contents

a. Principles. Material-related
a1 Wood - natural building material with potential
a1 10 Progress rooted in tradition
a1 20 Timber engineering
a1 30 Facade
a1 40 Fitting-out
a2 Ecology, sustainable building
a2 10 Wood - a building material with ecological benefits
a2 20 The wood life cycle and processing chain
a3 Conception and design
a3 10 The design process
a3 20 Planning
a3 30 Process sequence
a3 40 Quality assurance
a4 Material
a4 10 Species of wood
a4 20 Properties of wood
a4 30 Grading
b. Construction systems. Loadbearing structure, building structure, design
b1 Overview of systems
b1 10 Building systems in timber construction
b1 20 Walls, suspended floors, roofs
b1 30 Choosing a building system
b2 Fabrication processes
b2 10 Fabrication processes related to building systems
b2 20 Building principles
b2 30 Fabrication stages related to the building components
b2 40 Building with elements
b3 Log construction
b3 10 General
b3 20 Further development
b4 Timber-frame construction
b4 10 Past and present
b4 20 The parts of the construction
b4 30 Settling allowance
b5 Balloon frame, platform frame
b5 10 Two basic forms
b5 20 Timber stud construction today
b6 Panel construction
b6 10 General
b6 20 The parts of the construction
b6 30 Settling allowance
b6 40 Building structure and wall construction
b6 50 Structural engineering
b6 60 Loadbearing construction
b7 Frame construction
b7 10 General
b7 20 The parts of the construction
b7 30 Building structure
b7 40 Forms of frame construction
b7 50 Structural engineering
b7 60 Loadbearing structure and building envelope
b8 Solid timber construction
b8 10 General
b8 20 Solid cross-sections
b8 30 Compound cross-sections
b9 Roof structures
b9 10 General
b9 20 Overview of structural systems
b9 30 Close-couple roof
b9 40 Purlin roof
b9 50 Traditional roof structures
b9 60 Roof trusses, trussed rafters
b9 70 Roof systems with primary and secondary structures
b9 80 Structural engineering
b10 Suspended floor structures
bl0 10 General, overview of systems
bl0 20 Structural engineering, loadbearing construction
b10 30 Construction details
b10 40 Technical materials requirements
b10 50 Timber joist floors
b10 60 Ribbed-panel and hollow-box floors
b10 70 Solid timber floors made from solid timber sections
b10 80 Solid timber floors made from board-type, glued elements
b10 90 Timber-concrete composite floors
b11 Multi-storey timber buildings
b11 10 General
b11 20 Conception and design
b11 30 Structural engineering
b11 40 Settling behaviour
b11 50 Typical sections
b11 60 Building services
b11 70 Production
b11 80 Erection
c. Building envelope, walls, suspended floors. Functions, layers, construction
c1 Fundamentals, functions, tasks
c1 10 General
c1 20 Building envelope
c1 30 Functions, tasks, and performance
c1 40 Building standards
c2 Design and construction
c2 10 General
c2 20 Positions of component layers
c2 30 Junctions between components
c3 External walls
c3 10 External wall systems
c3 20 External cladding
c3 30 Inner linings
c4 Pitched roofs
c4 10 Uninsulated pitched roofs
c4 20 Insulated pitched roofs
c5 Flat roofs
c5 10 Uninsulated flat roofs
c5 20 Insulated flat roofs
c5 30 Design of insulated flat roofs
c5 40 Falls
c6 Party walls, internal walls
c6 10 Tasks
c6 20 Sound insulation of party walls
c6 30 Flanking transmissions
c6 40 Suggested forms of construction
c7 Suspended floors
c7 10 Tasks
c7 20 Sound insulation of suspended timber floors
c7 30 Flanking transmissions
c7 40 Suggested forms of construction
d.Boundary conditions. Moisture content, protecting timber, fire protection
d1 Moisture content
d1 10 General
d1 20 Requirements
d1 30 The right installation moisture content
d2 Protecting timber
d2 10 Risks
d2 20 Constructional (passive) protection
d2 30 Surface treatments and chemical wood preservatives
d2 40 New developments in protecting timber
d3 Fire protection
d3 10 Fire protection in the planning process
d3 20 Fundamental terms
d3 30 Requirements
d3 40 Design
e. Appendix. Disclaimer, notes, references
e1 References, institutions
e2 Information, databases of manufacturers
e3 Regulations, standards, technical information sheets, aids
e3 10 Switzerland
e3 20 Germany
e3 30 European building materials and products standards
e4 Further reading
e5 Picture credits
e6 Construction projects featured in photographs