Post-Frame Building Handbook, Materials, Design Considerations and Construction Procedures
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Northeast Region Agricultural Engineering Service
Post-Frame Building Handbook explains everything about post-frame buildings.
A construction checklist, suggested readings, 31 tables, 60 detailed illustrations, and examples of important activities and calculations complement the clear, concise text, presented in two colors for easy reading and reference.
Keywords
- Advantages
- Limitations
- Building codes
- Building materials
- Site selection
- Functional planning
- Structural loads
- Stresses in wood
- Diaphragm
action
- Size and spacing of posts
- Foundations
- Framing members
- Suspended floors
- Bulk storage of commodities
- Construction procedures
- Conversion
factors
- Section properties of dressed (S45) sawed lumber
Pages
NRAES1, reviewed November 2001