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Tall Wood Buildings

Tall Wood Buildings

RE: Tall Wood Buildings

Appears to be 29 MB and loading sloooowly...

RE: Tall Wood Buildings

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.

RE: Tall Wood Buildings

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

RE: Tall Wood Buildings

Don't light a match!!

RE: Tall Wood Buildings

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
 

RE: Tall Wood Buildings

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.

RE: Tall Wood Buildings

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

Regards,
Lutfi
 

RE: Tall Wood Buildings

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
 

RE: Tall Wood Buildings

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.

RE: Tall Wood Buildings

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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

RE: Tall Wood Buildings

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.

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