Hi folks,
I'm a structural engineer, specializing in timber and used to designing pretty simple frost-wall foundations up in the tundra of New England. I'm looking to design more haunched-slab or raft-slab foundations at residential scale, both for warmer climates and for...
Hello all! Long time reader, first time poster.
I'm looking at a connection in which a deep (36") glulam timber tees into a W beam, with steel deck and slab over both. By my math, this timber will shrink by roughly 5/8" from its as-manufactured moisture content of ~15% to in-service MC of ~8%...