Timber Flashcards
what is consideree when chooisng timber
aetshtics
physical properites
indoor or outdoor
ease of machining
commercial aspects
aethteicts realting to timbver
grain
patter
colour
commercial aspects relatign to timber
cost
stock
avalability
cosntiency in quality
potntial levels of waste
types of timber
hard wood
soft wood s
what are hard woods
timber from a broad leave tree
dedicuous trees
slow growing
what are soft woods
timber from confieruous trees
geenrally fast grwoing
name hard woods
oak
beech
teak
desciption and characteristics of oak
european - yellow pbrown
us - red or white
attarctive grain pattersn
desciption and characteristics of beech
streight graned
fine even texture
reddish brwon/pink/pale red
what is beech after steamign
white/cream
desciption and characteristics of teak
yellow/brown
straight grained
oil texture
bery expensive
phsycial shit of oak
hard
tough and strong
restant to outdoor codntiions
why will oak corrode steel screws or fixings
has a tannic acid in it
proerties fo teak
hard
tough
natural oil
very durable
high restantce to outdoor
why teak restat to outdoor
high resin content
natrual oils
what does teak natrual oils do
resists
mositore
acids
alkali
phsycial and shti of beech
hard
close grained
good bending strenght
good stiffness
good for imapc restance
comapred to aok what si teak
lil less reistant to impact
slighly stronger and stiffe
r
comapred to oak what si ebech
stronger in bending strenght
stiffness
impact resitance
where oak from
europe
NA
where beech from
europe
UK
where teak from
burma
indian pensiul
uses of oak
futniture
flooring
inetrior and exterior joinery
cladding
what si cladding
outlayer appleid on a structure
uses of beech
mallets
chopping boards
work benches
kitchen ware
uses of teak
outdoor furntiture
lab benches
boats
name 3 soft woods
pine
spruce
fir
where pien from
UK
Nortehn Europe
Russia
where sprcue from
europe
canda
where fir from
cenrtal and southern europ
e
desciption and characteristics of pien
white and creamy
straight grained
soemtiems resinous knots
desciption and characteristics of spruce
straight grained
thin regualr texture
what is common w spruce
resin cancals
shrinkage when dried
desciption and characteristics of fir
white greyish
fien to medium texture
no resin
straight or slightly wave grain
phsycial and shit of pien
strong and stiff
varied quality
phsycial shit of spruce
restant to splitting
soft
low in weight
medium desnite
good strenght and elasticity
phsycial fo fir
good corrsion resitance
soft
low in weight
mid density
good strenght
flexbile and elastic
when dried wat is fir
less suspectiabel to shrinkgae thna spruce
strog and stable
with regards to machieing what si fir
easy
uses of pine
exterior inetrior joinery
strtcural uses
fences
garden shed
uses of spruce
structural
cosntruction timebr
uses of fir
veneers
plywood
constructio
windows
doors
what will designers cosider for timber
short term phsycial proepties
long term phsycial proeprities
woking proeprties
aesthtcis
commercial factors
shoft term physcial properities in timebr cosnideration
strenght
stiffness
density
hardness
long term phsycial propetities in cosnidertion
stability
hwo much shit warps, expands, shinks
out door suitability
chemical restace
issues with using timebr
deforestation
endgarerign species
ways to reduce timebr damage to enviro
use FSC
commercial productiosn of soft woods
man made boards
how si wood soruced and conversioned d
debarked
cut to size
kiln dried
issues with kiln drying
high enegry
secondary processing on timebr
conevrsion to larger peices or specific lenghts
heat and rot restance
benefits fo wood
can eb recyled
regrown
not entirely finite
what does grade mean in timebrs
quality fo shit
