Overview
This simple, practical, and concise guide to timber design uses both the Allowable Stress Design and the Load and Resistance Factor Design methods. It equips students to design real-world wood structures, taking a holistic project-based learning approach and using practical example problems. This new edition provides more on the student design project with examples of drawings and specifications used for construction; in-depth coverage of lateral force resisting systems for wood construction; design examples using LRFD for joists, girders and axially load member; framing and framing systems; long span wood members and members used in high-rise construction; and updated floor span charts.
- | Author: Abi O. Aghayere|Jason Vigil
- | Publisher: CRC Press
- | Publication Date: Apr 21, 2017
- | Number of Pages: 630 pages
- | Language: English
- | Binding: Hardcover
- | ISBN-10: 1498749852
- | ISBN-13: 9781498749855
