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  Warp restraint

  In drying timber and other wood products, the application of external loads to a rack, stack or pack of the timber to prevent or reduce warp.

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• Timber maintenance

  Maintenance affects all who use timber in buildings. • Designers – architects, engineers and drafting staff – need to ensure that the elements specified can be maintained effectively and inexpensively. They need to give some thought as to how it can be maintained. • Constructors need to use details that minimise contact between moisture and the wood, and are easy to inspect and repaint. • Building owners, servicemen and maintenance trades need to take care of barriers and regularly inspect and touch-up timber elements and their protection.

• Timber service life requirements

  This section provides information to assist timber industry employees, timber users and specifiers of timber to select members and structures with respect to their service life requirements. The information provided has been derived from historical performance and field and laboratory research and experience.

• Design Capacity Tables for Timber (DCTT) - Part B (unseasoned)

  The Design Capacity Tables for Timber is a design aid for structural engineers. It provides assistance in the limit states modelling of timber behaviour.

• Timber finishes - interior

  The look and feel of an interior is determined by the combination of its functionality and the desired aesthetic. Where timber is used in the interior fit-out of a construction the finish applied to the timber often determines the strength of the aesthetic impact. A number of finishes are available to enable the designer and installer to enhance the beauty of the timber product and increase its functionality. Learn more about timber interior finishes here.

• Incidence of major structural damage by termites in Australian houses

  Incidence of major damage by termites: An assessment of the amount of damage done to constructions by termites.

• Termites management in housing construction

  The basic premise of termite risk management is that the level of termite protection should match the level of site risk. Concepts such as “whole-of-house protection” and “integrated pest management” go some way towards meeting technical aspects of this debate.

• Design Capacity Tables for Timber (DCTT) - Part A (seasoned)

  The Design Capacity Tables for Timber is a design aid for structural engineers. It provides assistance in the limit states modelling of timber behaviour.

• Specification

  The specification process is the process of the designer communicating their intentions to the supplier of the material. The properties required are generally determined by the performance requirements of the elements within the specific type of application.

• Machine stress-grading

  The machine stress grading process requires that quality checks be built into the operation of the machine so that its grading is uniform over time, and that the correlation between grading parameter and the properties of the product remains valid. These checks are on the performance of the machine, which can be found by running calibration sticks of known properties through the machine, and on the performance of the output, by periodically performing destructive tests on samples of the graded timber. Quality control gives some indication of the success of the grading, and it is incorporated in the design of timber elements through the use of different capacity factors for different levels.

• Timber finishes - exterior

  The weathering process leads to a slow breaking down and wearing away of surface fibres, change in colour and roughening of the surface. Under extreme conditions, timber may deform, check, split and pull away from fasteners. The extent of weathering will vary with timber species and ambient conditions. Although unprotected timber has been used externally for centuries, the weathered effect is not always desirable. In most applications timber needs protection from the elements of water, cold, heat and ultra-violet light to promote a long service life. In addition to protection from the elements, finishes may provide a decorative effect.