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Eurocode 5 - Design of timber structures

Author: Jacques Long TRINH

Publication date: February 10, 2015

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4. Conclusion

As with all Eurocodes, this standard has been drafted in such a way as to allow :

  • address the main issues involved in the design of timber structures, in the light of current techniques;

  • to limit as much as possible the complexity of calculations due to the numerous parameters that influence wood properties;

  • to be very open to a diversity of methods of varying complexity. The designer will have a free choice between a thorough search for economy and a simpler solution that is, in principle, more robust than the optimum.

For designers of timber structures, Eurocode 5 can be seen as a fairly radical change, due to the introduction of the new semi-probabilistic approach with limit state calculation methods, a different concept from the usual...

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