STRUCTURAL DESIGN FOR ARCHITECTURE

Structural Design for Architecture resistant to a variety of environmental condi- tions is available. Both timber-to-timber conn ...

Timber structures Fig. 6.40 Stressed-skin deck in which composite action takes place between joists and boarding. This extends t ...

Structural Design for Architecture Table 6.10 Span ranges for sawn-timber joists in domestic floors (section sizes under the lin ...

Table 6.11 Span ranges for sawn-timber joists in flat roof decks to which pedestrians do not have access (section sizes under th ...

Structural Design for Architecture Table 6.12 Simple rules for preliminary sizing of stressed-skin panels Parameter Minimum over ...

Fig. 6.42 Traditional pitched roof arrangement of closely spaced rafters and ridge board. The rafters exert a horizon- tal load ...

Structural Design for Architecture Fig. 6.45 Section through truss-and-purlin roof. The purlins are positioned so that the 'comm ...

Table 6.13 Approximate span ranges for different types of timber pitched-roof structures Span Spanning across Timber joist (flat ...

Structural Design for Architecture Fig. 6.48 Timber wallframe - platform frame type. In the platform frame the individual wall a ...

Fig. 6.50 Timber wallframe - modified frame type. In the modified frame the wall elements are only one storey high but the floor ...

studs are positioned at the same spacing as the floor joists so as to minimise eccentricity in the transfer of load. The advanta ...

Timber structures Fig. 6.53 Single-storey timber skeleton-frame structure in which the principal elements are plyweb built-up-be ...

Structural Design for Architecture Fig. 6.54 Beam grid for single-storey timber skeleton frame. Closely spaced joists (built-up- ...

(3.5 m to 6 m). Element sizes for two versions of this type of frame are given in Table 6.14. Where timber is used for multi-sto ...

vertical-plane diaphragms. As with skeleton frames in other materials, the braced panels should be positioned as symmetrically a ...

Timber structures Fig. 6.58 Timber folded-plate struc- ture. Forms such as this, which are constructed from panels consisting of ...

Structural Design for Architecture Fig. 6.59 Timber hyperbolic paraboloid shells are used here to form a roof structure of disti ...

Timber structures placed in different directions so as to produce a shell which has similar structural properties in all directi ...

Selected bibliography Addis, W.B., The Art of the Structural Engineer, Engel, H., Structure Systems, Stuttgart, 1967 London, 199 ...

Structural Design for Architecture Pippard, A.J.S. and Baker, J., The Analysis of Engineering Structures (4th edition), London, ...