The document summarizes the timber engineering design considerations for an office building. It discusses:
1) The framing system will use screw connections for joints and assume fixed column and foundation connections.
2) Bracings will be installed around the perimeter to counteract wind loads.
3) Nelson Pine LVL, an engineered wood product, will be used for its dimensional stability and strength properties.
4) The design will follow standards for structural actions, timber structures, and product specifications. Load and wind calculations are detailed.
The document summarizes the timber engineering design considerations for an office building. It discusses:
1) The framing system will use screw connections for joints and assume fixed column and foundation connections.
2) Bracings will be installed around the perimeter to counteract wind loads.
3) Nelson Pine LVL, an engineered wood product, will be used for its dimensional stability and strength properties.
4) The design will follow standards for structural actions, timber structures, and product specifications. Load and wind calculations are detailed.
The document summarizes the timber engineering design considerations for an office building. It discusses:
1) The framing system will use screw connections for joints and assume fixed column and foundation connections.
2) Bracings will be installed around the perimeter to counteract wind loads.
3) Nelson Pine LVL, an engineered wood product, will be used for its dimensional stability and strength properties.
4) The design will follow standards for structural actions, timber structures, and product specifications. Load and wind calculations are detailed.
The document summarizes the timber engineering design considerations for an office building. It discusses:
1) The framing system will use screw connections for joints and assume fixed column and foundation connections.
2) Bracings will be installed around the perimeter to counteract wind loads.
3) Nelson Pine LVL, an engineered wood product, will be used for its dimensional stability and strength properties.
4) The design will follow standards for structural actions, timber structures, and product specifications. Load and wind calculations are detailed.
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TIMBER ENGINEERING
Name: Nisha Prakash
1. DESIGN CONSIDERATIONS Design specification includes a layout and a plan of a office building as specified by our client Dr. Rijun Shreshtha. Assumptions for the design are made considering the specified drawings.
2. FRAMING SYSTEM OF THE STRUCTURE
Considering Screw connection for the design of Apex, Knee and Foundation since it is the moment resistance frame and easy to install. Further it is assumed that the column and foundations joints are fixed.
3. BRACING It is known that the Lateral loads produced by the wind is counteracted by the bracings and these bracings shall be installed in the periphery of the building experiencing the wind load.
4. SELECTION OF THE MATERIAL
Nelson Pine LVL is an engineered wood obtained from the peeled veneers which are surfaced in the Parallel grain orientation. This type of Pine is mainly used to disperse or remove the strength reducing characteristics of the wood. Nelson Pine LVL is dimensionally stable, resists warping and twisting and is machined to consistently uniform sizes. The following are the properties of the same,
TIMBER PROPERTIES Type LVL11 Thickness 2.5 – 4.4 mm Moisture Content 8 – 15% Joint Group JD3&JD4 Timber Modulus E 11000 Modulus of rigidity 550 Timber Tensile Strength 26 Timber Compressive Strength 38 Timber Shear Strength 5.3 Timber Bending Strength 38
Table 1 : Properties of Nelson Pile LVL
5. DESIGN CODES AND GUIDELINES
In the design of the proposed office building the following
code book guidelines are considered and designed according to the regional standards. STANDARDS NAME AS 1170.0 - 2002 Structural Design Actions, Part 0 : General Principles AS1170.1 - 2002 Structural Design Actions, Part 1: Permanent, Imposed and Other Actions AS1170.2 - 2011 Structural Design Actions, Part 1: Wind Actions AS1720.1 - 2010 Timber Structures, Part 1 : Design Methods NPIL/03/2012 NelsonPine LVL Specific Engineering Design Guide EXPAN (2011 AUPF1P) EXPAN – Timber Portal Frames
EXPAN – Timber only
composite floors system
6. LOAD ACTION
The Live load on the slab is considered to be 3KPa and
Partition wall load of 0.11 KN/m2 (from table A2, AS1170.1). The other load calculations are directly considered from the analysis software – Microstran.
7. WIND LOADS The designed office building falls in the importance of level 3 of table 3.2 from AS 1170.0. The design life of this building is considered to be 50 years and hence 1000 years of return period is considered for the determination of regional wind.
8. ANALYSIS OF THE STRUCTURE
The structure is drawn and analyzed by using Microstan. The
framing is done by using Microstran and the dimension are designed to the safety of loads. The load combinations were initially taken from AS 1170.0:2002 and these loads are further input into the program.
The structure is analyzed and further the validity of the model
is checked by hand calculations. The output of the analysis is further analysed and recalculated, further this is involved in the design of structural elements.
9. RESULTS FROM THE ANALYSIS
Once the analysis is run through the program for the analysis, the highest value i.e the highest load for the structural member is taken and used in the design of elements in the structure.
10. SUMMARY OF THE PRELIMINARY DESIGN
1) Preliminary dimensions for the office building are
considered and designed before arriving at the final dimensions and are depicted in the following table. Table 1: Preliminary Dimension
2) Final size of members from design
Table 2: Final dimensions considered for the design
