Everybody who has never strength tested timber knows that the denser timber is, the stronger it is in bending. Only people who have timber testing laboratories have reason to doubt …
Climate and pest driven forest conversion is resulting in decreasing shares of coniferous species in Europe (e.g. BMLEH 2024). Modern wood-based construction heavily relies on softwoods, especially spruce (Picea abies). …
Sitka spruce will continue to be the main commercial species in the British Isles, but there are reasons to also consider wider planting of other species to better serve the …
Cladding and tiling battens are not structural timber, but they sometimes need to be designed to ensure correct performance for criteria such as strength, deflection, fire and fastener holding capacity. …
In Europe, machine strength grading of sawn timber for construction is governed by the harmonized European Standard EN 14081-2. A substantially changed revision of this standard has recently undergone Enquiry …
Impulse excitation, also known as impact excitation and resonance technique, is a commonly used method to assess the stiffness of wood in both scientific and industrial settings. One or more …
It is well known that knots can reduce the strength of timber, and the selection of “critical section” for testing to EN 408 and EN 384 is typically based on …
The UK has a British Standard for external timber cladding, BS8605-1, in which support battens are defined as timber components of a section, grade, and durability, suitable for supporting external …
Timber in Europe is normally graded under the EN 14081 framework [1]–[5]. Developing new grading assignments under these standards might not be feasible for unusual timber resources due to their …
This research investigated the feasibility of using framing softwood, recovered from building deconstruction, as a feedstock for structural glulam manufacture. It covered the sourcing of timber from a demolition site; …
“How should we build today to be able to circulate tomorrow?” This is one of the main questions theInFut UReWood Project (Innovative Design for the Future – Use and Reuse …
The impact excitation resonance technique is a commonly used method for assessing the stiffness of materials by measurement of vibrational frequencies. It has proved to be a fast and reliable …
The UK’s commercial forestry is based largely on one species, Sitka spruce (Picea sitchensis), which provides wood fibre for a wide range of uses, including construction, pallets and packing, fencing, …
The primary outputs of the work are Eurocode compatible preliminary predictive models for individual in situ structural timber elements for the characteristic values of MoE, MoR and density together with …
UK-grown timber is often perceived to have “low quality”, and most of the UK’s sawn timber is used for fencing and packaging material. Much of the resource could be used …
