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Lumber
Timber after it has been sawed and split into planks or other smaller components that can be used as building material.
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Organic building materials
Building materials; Lumber
These materials are those based on carbon compounds. They include sawn lumber, reconstituted and engineered wood products and plastics.
Dimensional change
Building materials; Lumber
Changes in the size of a piece of dry lumber as its moisture content changes to be in equilibrium with the surrounding atmospheric conditions.
Floor board
Building materials; Lumber
Boards dressed to standard thickness and generally finished with a tongue and groove, fixed to floor joists or a substrate to provide a floor.
Loose assembled
Building materials; Lumber
The fabrication of lumber elements off site so that they are finished but not connected together until on site just prior to installation
Honeycombing
Building materials; Lumber
A drying defect which occurs when tensile stresses in the core (usually a result of collapse) result in the formation of internal cavities.
Lumber
Building materials; Lumber
Characteristic determined by the size and quality of the wood elements. Descriptive terms include fine, medium, uniform, even, uneven, coarse.
Portal
Building materials; Lumber
A planar frame where the lateral and bending forces are transferred by moment resisting connexions from the portal rafters to the columns.
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