AS 1720 Test for Wooden Structures

EUROLAB, with its state-of-the-art accredited laboratories and expert team, provides precise and fast testing services within the scope of AS 1720 testing. This Standard provides a code of practice for the design and acceptance of timber structures and members, and includes appropriate design methods and design data for commonly encountered structural members and materials, and requirements that must be met for the specifics of design, installation and maintenance of timber structures.

This Standard specifies boundary-state design methods for the structural use of wood, based on the principles of structural mechanics and research data.

It provides design data for sawn timber, laminated wood, post lumber, plywood, veneer lumber, and various types of fastenings. In addition, it provides test methods for components or assemblies of unconventional design that may not be immediately amenable to detailed analysis.

A structure and its structural members should be designed to withstand the design impact effects resulting from appropriate combinations of influences to meet the requirements for strength, stability and serviceability limit states.

Design capacities for structural wood should be obtained by varying the characteristic capacities with factors appropriate to the service conditions and material property type. This general procedure applies to all types of structural wood, including sawn lumber, laminated wood, natural round lumber, plywood, and laminated veneer lumber, unless otherwise noted.

EUROLAB assists manufacturers with AS 1720 test compliance. Our test experts, with their professional working mission and principles, provide you, our manufacturers and suppliers, the best service and controlled testing process in our laboratories. Thanks to these services, businesses receive more effective, high-performance and quality testing services and provide safe, fast and uninterrupted service to their customers.