المراجعة التحريرية | The book is a great reference resource for graduate teaching and a great option as a textbook for undergraduate teaching...it combines the background knowledge of wood as an engineering material, reviews structural design loads and then guides through the design timber structures element/system by element/system -- Mark Gehloff, University of Northern British Columbia "This book is fully up to date making it useful to anybody interested in specific aspects of code design rules applicable to US practice...International readers should find it useful as a reference item." -- Ian Smith, University of New Brunswick "The main strength of the book is it covers the fundamental of wood as a structural material, enlightens the wood mechanical properties in details, explains the general design approaches for structural wood members and describes the wood connections... Overall it is excellent guidance not only for undergraduate students but also for post-graduates." -- Aamir Khokhar, Edinburgh Napier University |