Item #: 5310
Author: McGraw-Hill
Publisher: McGraw-Hill
ISBN:0070220700
Format: Hardcover
Your Price: $93.95
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The Wood Engineering and Construction Handbook is the industry benchmark in wood structure design!
All the information, formulas, procedures, and examples that you need to design virtually any type of wood structure or structural wood component. Thats what you get in this indispensable updated handbook. It includes 1997 National Design Specifications for Wood Structures and covers changes in Allowable Stress Design. Focusing on revisions in ASD methodology for timber structure design, the Handbook also provides the newest data on NDS values for timber rivets and other fasteners, reflects new industry standards in shearwalls, and shows you applications of new standards through updated examples. You get complete coverage of everything from wood properties and preliminary design considerations through the latest information on adhesives. This one-stop guide is a valuable asset that youll refer to practically every day of your professional life.
Key Features:
- Wood Properties
- Preliminary Design Considerations
- Columns
- Bending Members
- Mechanical Fasteners and Connections
- Trusses
- Structural Wood Panels
- Diaphragms and Shearwalls
- Arches and Domes
- Miscellaneous Wood Structures
- Wood Foundation Structures
- Adhesives