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Basic Lumber Engineering for Builders
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By Max Schwartz

The beam and lumber requirements for your jobs aren't always clear, especially with changing building codes and lumber products. If you need to figure any type of on-the-job lumber engineering, this book will help fill the gap between what you can find in building code span tables and the complex calculations that you need to hire a certified engineer to do. With large, clear, illustrations, examples, and engineering calculations explained in simplified language, the author shows you:

  • How to figure the stresses for engineered wood structural members, plywood beams and panels, glu-lam products, and trusses

  • How to calculate loads, including snow, seismic and impact loads

  • How to design girders, beams and joists

The book covers most building types and framing systems, including door, window and roof framing. And there's a chapter on connections, retrofitting with anchor bolts, framing anchors and tie-downs, plus the latest requirements for cross-bridging and anchoring.

Also included is an important chapter on designing concrete formwork - figuring the pressures, tolerances, and thicknesses for plywood, Plyform, composition, and fiber-reinforced plastic.

Software included:

In the back of the book you'll find a computer disk with an easy-to-use version of NorthBridge Software's Wood Beam Sizing. Just follow the step-by-step instructions in the program to find out what size member you need for the spans and loads that you require based on the wood species that you're using. Requires Windows 3.1 or higher.

The Author:

Max Schwartz has been in the construction business for over 50 years, working jobs from small residential developments to major industrial facilities, in locations ranging from California townsites to the Central American jungles.

Since serving in the Army Corps of Engineers in World War II, he has been a consulting civil and mechanical engineer, licensed in states across the country. He has lectured and written several books on building engineering, and has taught civil engineering at UCLA Extension for the past 20 years. Mr. Schwartz now specializes in forensic engineering and serves as an expert witness in proceedings involving building defects and natural catastrophes

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Basic Lumber Engineering
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CR703
$38.00

 

 

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