Timber flat roof beam design – Structural calculation and dimensioning
A step-by-step guide on how to design & calculate a flat wood roof.
Timber truss roof design: A structural guide
A step-by-step guide on how to calculate & design a wood truss roof.
Timber Rafter roof design: Complete guide of structural calculations
Step-by-step guide on how to design & dimension the wood rafters of a rafter roof.
Collar beam design: Structural calculation of a timber roof
After covering the basics like loads, load combinations, design of timber beams and the design of timber rafters and purlins, it’s now time to design another roof type – the collar beam or collar roof….
Steel to Timber connection – Beam to beam – An example of a flat roof connection
One key aspect of dimensioning timber elements such as beams and columns is the timber connection design. The structural elements can be well verified for bending, shear, deflection, buckling, etc. but when designing the connection…
Timber column design: An example of a highrise building column
After designing some roof elements like rafters, purlins and beams, it is now time to look at structural timber columns. Some of the concepts of designing timber elements have been mentioned in previous articles. Therefore,…
Timber Purlin roof design – Complete guide
After we have designed the rafters of the purlin roof in the last article, we are now applying the support forces of the rafters to the purlins and design those elements…. Sounds exciting, right?🔥 Let’s…
How to dimension rafters of purlin roofs?
We have now finally covered all the basics like wind load, snow load, dead load, load combinations, directions of loads and statical systems of roofs. In this article we can use that knowledge to dimension…
How to calculate timber Beam Sizes
After we have covered all the basics that we need, we can finally dimension a timber beam. If you haven’t read the posts about Statical systems of timber roofs, Loads and Load combinations i…