engineerTimber - Designing Timber Columns

This is the third webinar in engineerTimber, a series of seven CPD webinars providing an introduction to structural engineering in timber. This session focuses on the process of designing timber columns - the vertical supports of a building. Ideas like buckling and bearing are introduced in a practical way, before speaker James Norman demonstrates some simple calculations. The lecture contains technical content but also provides shortcuts and tables for those from a non-engineering background. It is presented by James Norman (Bristol University) and Vikki Edmondson (Northumbria University).