Timber Engineering Notebook series. No. 5: Timber frame structures – platform frame construction (pa

This note pays particular attention to partial factors with reference to BS EN 1990: Eurocode – Basis of structural design , to illustrate how extreme events are approached, and explains how the code interprets the application of loads (actions) for such events.

The technology behind post-fix anchors is increasingly complex. This note provides some clarity around the multitude of options that can be presented to a designer required to specify anchors.

This article introduces the composition and terminology used for platform frame building structures and describes the structural engineering checks required to verify the adequacy of the virtual load paths and the strength and stiffness of the individual framing members.