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Informationen zum Autor James C. Coulson FIWSc FFB is a Wood Scientist and Timber Technologist with an encyclopaedic experience of the use of wood in construction, extending back over more than 35 years. He served as President of the Institute of Wood Science from 2002 to 2004 and he is currently a member of the Board of the Wood Technology Society (WTS), a Division of the Institute of Materials, Minerals and Mining (IOM3). He is a member of the WTS's Education Working Group and a tutor for the IOM3 courses on Wood Science and Timber Technology. He has been a Visiting Lecturer to the Universities of Newcastle and Durham Schools of Architecture and Engineering, as well as to Leeds College of Building. He is also a member of the UK Executive Committee of ICOMOS and a specialist in condition surveys of historic timber buildings (he was technical timber advisor for Shakespeare's Globe Theatre, working on that project for about 4¿ years). He founded Technology For Timber Limited , a consultancy practice dealing with all aspects of timber and wood-based products, in 1991. Klappentext Wood in Construction - How to Avoid Costly Mistakes focuses on the basic principles and appropriate use of wood in construction and illustrates how to avoid or minimise problems, to ensure that wood performs as expected when used in a construction application. Based on the author's extensive experience of manufacturing processes and practical applications in the timber, construction, joinery, shop-fitting and furniture industries, Wood in Construction provides a guide to using wood in building in the real world. It describes the main causes of difficulty when using wood, and shows how to avoid or minimise problems, reducing the difficulties for the architect, engineer or specifier, builder and building owner.Technical enough to explain why things should be done in specific ways, but also practical enough to demonstrate how to use wood correctly and avoid doing the wrong things, this is an invaluable resource for construction specifiers (architects, engineers), carpenters, structural engineers, building surveyors, small/medium sized builders. Zusammenfassung Wood in Construction - How to Avoid Costly Mistakes focuses on the basic principles and appropriate use of wood in construction and illustrates how to avoid or minimise problems, to ensure that wood performs as expected when used in a construction application. Inhaltsverzeichnis Preface x 1 Wood as a Material 1 1.1 Cellulose 2 1.2 Grain 4 1.3 Dimensional change in wood 8 1.4 Heartwood and sapwood 10 1.5 Natural durability 13 1.6 Rays 14 1.7 Radial and tangential directions 15 1.8 Permeability in timber 16 1.9 Chapter summary 16 2 More on Timber: Some Stuff About the UK Timber Trade 18 2.1 'Wood' or 'timber'? 18 2.2 Wood species and timber trading 19 2.3 Softwoods and hardwoods 19 2.4 Some more detail on cell structure 23 2.5 Trade names and scientific names 27 2.6 A cautionary tale about timber names 28 2.7 Growth rings 31 2.8 Earlywood and latewood 32 2.9 Rate of growth in softwoods 33 2.10 Rate of growth in hardwoods 34 2.11 Chapter summary 37 3 Water in Wood: Moisture Content and the Drying of Timber 39 3.1 The definition of moisture content 39 3.2 Moisture meters 40 3.3 'Wet' or 'dry'? In-service moisture contents and 'EMC' 43 3.4 EMC 44 3.5 Specification of desired moisture content 44 3.6 Fibre saturation point 46 3.7 Shrinkage 47 3.8 Movement 48 3.9 Kiln drying 49 3.10 Air drying 53 3.11 Timescales for drying timber 54 3.12 Chapter summary 55 4 Specifying Timber - for Indoor or Outdoor Uses 57 4.1 British and European standards 57 4.2 Durability and treat...
