Structural timber design to Eurocode 5 [[electronic resource] /] / Jack Porteous and Abdy Kermani

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910463126603321
• Autore: Porteous Jack
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Chichester [England], : John Wiley & Sons Inc., 2013
• ISBN: 1-118-59728-1; 1-118-59729-X
• Edizione: [2nd ed.]
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (640 p.)
• Altri autori (Persone): KermaniAbdy
• Disciplina: 694.02/184
• Soggetti: Building, Wooden - Standards - Europe; Structural frames - Design and construction - Standards - Europe; Timber - Standards; Electronic books.
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Structural Timber Design to Eurocode 5; Copyright; Contents; Preface to the Second Edition; 1 Timber as a Structural Material; 1.1 Introduction; 1.2 The structure of timber; 1.3 Types of timber; 1.3.1 Softwoods; 1.3.2 Hardwoods; 1.4 Natural characteristics of timber; 1.4.1 Knots; 1.4.2 Slope of grain; 1.4.3 Reaction wood; 1.4.4 Juvenile wood; 1.4.5 Density and annual ring widths; 1.4.6 Conversion of timber; 1.4.7 Seasoning; 1.4.8 Seasoning defects; 1.4.9 Cracks and fissures; 1.4.10 Fungal decay; 1.5 Strength grading of timber; 1.5.1 Visual grading; 1.5.2 Machine grading; 1.5.3 Strength classes1.6 Section sizes; 1.7 Engineered wood products (EWPs); 1.7.1 Glued-laminated timber (glulam); 1.7.2 Cross-laminated timber (CLT or X-Lam); 1.7.3 Plywood; 1.7.4 Laminated Veneer Lumber (LVL); 1.7.5 Laminated Strand Lumber (LSL), TimberStrand®; 1.7.6 Parallel Strand Lumber (PSL), Parallam®; 1.7.7 Oriented Strand Board (OSB); 1.7.8 Particleboards and fibre composites; 1.7.9 Thin webbed joists (I-joists); 1.7.10 Thin webbed beams (box beams); 1.7.11 Structural Insulated Panels (SIPs); 1.8 Suspended timber flooring; 1.9 Adhesive bonding of timber; 1.10 Preservative treatment for timber1.11 Fire safety and resistance; ; 1.12 References; 2 Introduction to Relevant Eurocodes; 2.1 Eurocodes: General structure; 2.2 Eurocode 0: Basis of structural design (EC0); 2.2.1 Terms and definitions (EC0, 1.5); 2.2.2 Basic requirements (EC0, 2.1); 2.2.3 Reliability management (EC0, 2.2); 2.2.4 Design working life (EC0, 2.3); 2.2.5 Durability (EC0, 2.4); 2.2.6 Quality management (EC0, 2.5); 2.2.7 Principles of limit state design: General (EC0, 3.1); 2.2.8 Design situations (EC0, 3.2); 2.2.9 Ultimate limit states (EC0, 3.3); 2.2.10 Serviceability limit states (EC0, 3.4)2.2.11 Limit states design (EC0, 3.5); 2.2.12 Classification of actions (EC0, 4.1.1); 2.2.13 Characteristic values of actions (EC0, 4.1.2); 2.2.14 Other representative values of variable actions (EC0, 4.1.3); 2.2.15 Material and product properties (EC0, 4.2); 2.2.16 Structural analysis (EC0, 5.1); 2.2.17 Verification by the partial factor method: General (EC0, 6.1); 2.2.18 Design values of actions (EC0, 6.3.1); 2.2.19 Design values of the effects of actions (EC0, 6.3.2); 2.2.20 Design values of material or product properties (EC0, 6.3.3); 2.2.21 Factors applied to a design strength at the ULS2.2.22 Design values of geometrical data (EC0, 6.3.4); 2.2.23 Design resistance (EC0, 6.3.5); 2.2.24 Ultimate limit states (EC0, 6.4.1-6.4.5); 2.2.25 Serviceability limit states: General (EC0, 6.5); 2.3 Eurocode 5: Design Of Timber Structures - Part 1-1: General - Comon Rules And Rules For Buildings (EC5); 2.3.1 General matters; 2.3.2 Serviceability limit states (EC5, 2.2.3); 2.3.3 Load duration and moisture influences on strength (EC5, 2.3.2.1); 2.3.4 Load duration and moisture influences on deformations (EC5, 2.3.2.2); 2.3.5 Stress-strain relations (EC5, 3.1.2)
• Sommario/riassunto: Structural Timber Design to Eurocode 5 provides practising engineers and specialist contractors with comprehensive, detailed information and in-depth guidance on the design of timber structures based on the common rules and rules for buildings in Eurocode 5 - Part 1-1. It will also be of interest to undergraduate and postgraduate students of civil and structural engineering. It provides a step-by-step approach to the design of all of the commonly used timber elements and connections using solid timber, glued laminated timber or wood based structural products, and incorporates t

The chicken trail [[electronic resource] ] : following workers, migrants, and corporations across the Americas / / Kathleen C. Schwartzman

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910779664803321
• Autore: Schwartzman Kathleen Crowley <1948->
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Ithaca, : ILR Press, 2013
• ISBN: 0-8014-6804-3; 0-8014-5116-7; 0-8014-6805-1
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (225 p.)
• Disciplina: 338.1/76500973
• Soggetti: Chicken industry - United States; Chicken industry - Mexico; Foreign workers, Mexican - United States; Unemployment - United States; Unemployment - Mexico; United States Emigration and immigration; Mexico Emigration and immigration; United States Commerce Mexico; Mexico Commerce United States
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Why follow chickens? -- Ethnic succession in the south -- Where have all the workers gone? -- Taylorism invades the hen house -- Solving industry crises : pollos y polleros -- Squeezing out Mexican chicken -- Voice : squawking at globalization -- Exit Mexico : si muero lejos de ti -- The global dilemma : summary and reflections.
• Sommario/riassunto: In The Chicken Trail, Kathleen C. Schwartzman examines the impact of globalization-and of NAFTA in particular-on the North American poultry industry, focusing on the displacement of African American workers in the southeast United States and workers in Mexico. Schwartzman documents how the transformation of U.S. poultry production in the 1980's increased its export capacity and changed the nature and consequences of labor conflict. She documents how ; globalization-and NAFTA in particular-forced Mexico to open its commodity and capital markets, and eliminate state support of corporations and rural smallholders. As a consequence, many Mexicans were forced to abandon their no longer sustainable small farms, with some seeking work in industrialized poultry factories north of the border. By following this chicken trail, Schwartzman breaks through the deadlocked immigration debate, highlighting the broader economic and political contexts of immigration flows. The narrative that undocumented worker take jobs that Americans don't want to do is too simplistic. Schwartzman argues instead that illegal immigration is better understood as a labor story in which the hiring of undocumented workers is part of a management response to the crises of profit making and labor-management conflict. By placing the poultry industry at the center of a constellation of competing individual, corporate, and national interests and such factors as national debt, free trade, economic development, industrial restructuring, and African American unemployment, The Chicken Trail makes a significant contribution to our understanding of the implications of globalization for labor and how the externalities of free trade and neoliberalism become the social problems of nations and the tragedies of individuals.