Wood Engineering and Construction Handbook

Engineering Wood Structures? Here's the Instruction Manual You'll find more wood joint, member, component, and systems design examples in Keith Faherty and Thomas Williamson's Wood Engineering and Construction Handbook, Second Edition, than any other design issues, lumber standards, and fire and sound control-data that made the first edition so popular-have been fully revised and updated. If you use wood, here's everything you need to design better and faster, including: Design formulas for all common beams and columns; Properties of structural panel products; Diaphragm and shear-wall principles and types; Permafrost construction methods; Behavior of mechanical fasteners and connectors; Truss economics and load considerations; Dome and arch geometry, design, and erection; Much more.