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Designers’ Guide to Eurocode 5: Design of Timber Buildings: EN

1995-1-1
Authors: Jack Porteous, Peter Ross and Haig Gulvanessian
Published: 2013

This series of Designers' Guides to the Eurocodes provides comprehensive guidance in the form of
design aids, indications for the most convenient design procedures and worked examples. The books
also include background information to aid the designer in understanding the reasoning behind and the
objectives of the codes. All of the individual guides work in conjunction with the Designers' Guide to
Eurocode: Basis of Structural Design. EN 1990. EN 1995, or Eurocode 5, describes the principles and
design rules to be used for the design of timber and wood based materials in building and civil
engineering structures. Designers' Guide to Eurocode 5: Design of Timber Buildings provides guidance
on the interpretation and use of the main design requirements of Part 1.1. Common rules and rules for
buildings, with additional guidance on the principles, requirements and rules of Part 1.2, Structural fire
design. Reference to the UK National Annex to EN 1995-1-1 is included throughout and background
information is provided as necessary to clarify the application, and any limitations of use, of certain Book tools
design rules. A few points of clarification and amendments to EN 1995-1-1 are expected to be issued
as a corrigendum and the authors have included in the guide some matters of significance to design
that are likely to be incorporated in the changes to be made. This guide is essential reading for ? civil Add to Favorites
and structural engineers ? code-drafting committees ? clients ? structural-design students ? public
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Contents and Preliminary Pages

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Introduction
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General
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Basis of design
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Material properties
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Durability
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Basis of structural design

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Ultimate limit states

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Serviceability limit states

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Connections with metal fasteners

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Components and assemblies
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Structural detailing and control

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Informative annexes
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Timber in fire (EN 1995-1-2)

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The design of multi-storey timber frame wall diaphragms

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Possible changes to EN 1995-1-1

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Index
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