Tall Wood Buildings

[dik]

This was eMailed to me by one of my friends...

http://wecbc.smallboxcms.com/database/rte/files/Tall Wood.pdf

Dik

 

[JStephen]

Appears to be 29 MB and loading sloooowly...

 

[ishvaaag]

JStephen, just a hint, ... use a downloader manager, say jDownloader or miPony, it takes say 10 times less.

dik, thanks, it is a beautiful book.

 

[BadgerPE]

30 Stories in wood. Wow! Gonna have to spend some time reading this.

 

[MiketheEngineer]

Don't light a match!!

 

[Lutfi]

I am with MiketheEngineer, fire would be my greatest concern, as is for all types of buildings especially combustible material, that gives me the woollies…

Regards,
Lutfi

 

[csd72]

Lutfi,

Actually, steel loses its strength faster than large sections of timber char so sometimes the mental picture of wood burning is counterintuitive to the reality.

 

[Lutfi]

CSD72, agreed as I stated that was a concern with all types of construction.

Regards,
Lutfi

 

[msquared48]

Why don't they just grow a real big tree and hire a wood carver, justin beaver, chipmunk, or to hollow it out?

Mike McCann
MMC Engineering

http://mmcengineering.tripod.com

 

[JStephen]

When I just clicked on the link, it opened up the first 130k or so and hung up. When I right-clicked and did a "save as", it downloaded very fast.

I didn't read through it all, but there is some discussion of fire issues in the book itself.

 

[dik]

I did a report on a barn about a decade ago and the floor timbers were 14"x16" and 75' long... each of them... no splices

Dik

 

[charliealphabravo]

According to the paper it looks like the taller wood buildings (20-30 stories) still need steel floor beams tied to a structural (steel/concrete) core.