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Engineered Wood Products: A Guide for Specifiers, Designers, and Users (#7270)
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The practical information presented in this book is useful to architects, designers, contractors, building officials, and others who specify engineered wood products, or design, build, and inspect structures made with them. This comprehensive, technical book is written in plain language. Published by PFS Foundation, each of the 11 chapters, authored by recognized experts in the field, is dedicated to one of today’s structural engineered wood products. In addition there are chapters on use consideration, quality assurance, and building code acceptance. Chapters include:

  • glued-laminated timber;
  • plywood;
  • metal plate connected wood trusses;
  • wood I-joists;
  • oriented strandboard and waferboard;
  • structural composite lumber;
  • fire protection design and engineered wood products;
  • long-term performance and durability of engineered wood products;
  • quality assurance in the manufacture of engineered wood products;
  • building codes and engineered wood products; and
  • load and resistance factor design.

A list of references is provided at the end of each chapter, and there is a comprehensive index.

Copyright 1997, 8-1/2 by 11 hardcover, 346 pages, #7270