Characteristics of Timber – Advantages and Disadvantes
First published on 25 November 2009
Advantages
- Good tensile strength (also compressive along grain, eg end loaded)
- Short lead in time
- Familiar material to workforce
- Flexible in construction
Disadvantages
- Limit to sizes available
- Not stable
- Beetle, decay and fire?
- Vulnerable to poor workmanship
- Too easy to adapt
- Maintenance cost
- Strongest woods (hardwoods) also slowest to grow
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