European Standards Organisation (CEN) Standards
The following CEN standards are relevant to the topic of glulam. They are used by all of the countries that subscribe to the European Committee for Standardisation:
- EN 386 — Glued laminated timber — Performance requirements and minimum production requirements
- EN 387 — Glued laminated timber — Large finger joints — Performance requirements and minimum production requirements
- EN 390 — Glued laminated timber. Sizes. Permissible deviations
- EN 391 — Glued laminated timber - Delamination tests of glue lines
- EN 392 — Glued laminated timber - Shear test of glue lines
- EN 408 — Structural timber and glued laminated timber — Determination of some physical and mechanical properties
- EN 1193 — Timber structures — Structural timber and glued laminated timber — Determination of shear strength and mechanical properties perpendicular to the grain
- EN 1194 — Timber structures — Glued laminated timber — Strength classes and determination of characteristic values
- EN 14080 — Timber structures — Glued laminated timber — Requirements
Read more about this topic: Glued Laminated Timber
Famous quotes containing the words european, standards and/or organisation:
“Long accustomed to the use of European manufactures, [the Cherokee Indians] are as incapable of returning to their habits of skins and furs as we are, and find their wants the less tolerable as they are occasioned by a war [the American Revolution] the event of which is scarcely interesting to them.”
—Thomas Jefferson (1743–1826)
“The technologist was the final guise of the white missionary, industrialization the last gospel of a dying race and living standards a substitute for a purpose in living.”
—Max Frisch (1911–1991)
“It is because the body is a machine that education is possible. Education is the formation of habits, a superinducing of an artificial organisation upon the natural organisation of the body.”
—Thomas Henry Huxley (1825–1895)