sdfdfsdfThe Eurocode for the Design of timber structures is bound to be more extensive than that

of Timber Structures (EC5) for other materials. Despite

comprising BS EN 1995-1-1: its length, designers should find this Manual concise and
General: Common rules and rules useful in practical design. It
for buildings was published in is laid out for hand calculation, but the procedures are equally
December 2004. The suitable for spread sheet
UK National Annex (NA) setting and/or computer application. An example is in the design of
out the Nationally Determined connections; EC5 requires the
Parameters (NDPs) has solution of a series of expressions, a process that is not
also been published. These practicable in hand
documents, together with
previously published documents
BS
EN 1990: Basis of Structural
Design and BS EN 1991: Actions
on Structures and their
respective NAs, provide a suite of
information for the design of
most types of timber
building structures in the UK.
After a period of co-existence, the
current National Standards
will be withdrawn and replaced by
the Eurocodes.

The Institution of Structural

Engineers has not previously
published a manual for
the design of timber structures.
This Manual follows the basic
format of manuals published
by the Institution for other
structural materials. It provides
guidance on the design of
structures of single-storey and
medium-rise multi-storey
buildings using common forms of
structural timberwork. Structures
designed in accordance with this
Manual will normally
comply with EC5. However it is not
intended to be a substitute for the
greater potential
range of EC5. The NDPs from the
UK NA have been taken into
account in the design
formulae that are presented.

Timber is a relatively complex

structural material therefore a
manual for the design