The capacity of timber members is influenced by a large number of characteristics of the timber and the ambient conditions in which the timber is used at the time of the strength limit state loading. Even the nature of the strength limit state loading itself can influence the failure load of the timber. The ambient conditions and the type of loading are accounted for in the use of a number of modification factors - the k factors.
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