Discover the advantages of long span timber floors for commercial applications.
This Design Guide complements WoodSolutions Design Guide #30: Timber Concrete Composite Floors. Timber cassette floor systems are well established in Australia, but are mainly used for residential floor loads comprised of either seasoned sawn timber or engineered wood products (EWP) such as I-joists, in conjunction with sawn and dressed timber, particle board or plywood flooring between 17 and 22 mm in thickness
Timber Cassette Floors
This Guide presents a design procedure based on AS 1720.1: 2010 Timber structures Part 1: Design methods for composite timber floor structures, manufactured using EWPs such as LVL and glulam and fabricated into T or box beam ‘cassettes’. The notations throughout this document are based on AS 1720.1