- 438 pages
- English
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The Development of Timber as a Structural Material
About this book
Woodworking has been one of the most important technologies from the earliest times. Carpentry was important for buildings and bridges and as an integral part of most construction processes. The history of this subject has been explored by a variety of scholars, from archaeologists who have studied medieval timber techniques to engineers who have been interested in the development of bridges. The different studies have explored the methods of carpentry, the behaviour of the structures that were built and even the economic and social histories behind the development of carpentry techniques. This book collects together a number of papers representing this full range of scholarship as well as providing a general review of work in the field.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Halftitle
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Table of Contents
- Acknowledgements
- General Editorās Preface
- Introduction
- 1 The cruck-built barn of Leigh Court, Worcestershire, England
- 2 The grammar of carpentry
- 3 The timber roofs of York Minster
- 4 Jettying and floor-framing in medieval Essex
- 5 Where roof meets wall: structural innovations and hammer-beam antecedants, 1150ā1250
- 6 The Westminster Hall roof: a historiographic and structural study
- 7 Westminster Hall roof
- 8 Early carpentersā manuals, 1592ā1820
- 9 The strength testing of timber during the 17th and 18th centuries
- 10 Sir Christopher Wrenās carpentry: a note on the library at Trinity College, Cambridge
- 11 Structural design in the eighteenth century: James Essex and the roof of Lincoln Cathedral Chapter House
- 12 In Delormeās Manner
- 13 Early wooden truss connections vs. wood shrinkage: from mortise-and-tenon joints to bolted connections
- 14 British and American solutions to a roofing problem
- 15 The development of laminated timber arch structures in Bavaria, France and England in the early nineteenth century
- 16 Case study of Burr truss covered bridge
- 17 The evolution of wooden bridge trusses to 1850
- Name and Place Index
- Subject Index