Framed+Structure

Framed Structures //A skeleton building//

A framed structure is a building technique that consist basically in a skeleton. It can be of many kind of materials like wood, concrete and steel. It has horizontal and vertical members. In the final of construction the frame is covered by the walls and all of other materials to make the desing and distribution works.

In the oral presentation of Dafne Pozo, she explain the kinds of framed structures. She sayd that exist two kind of framed structures and gave us the following information:

**{** 1**. __Jetties__:** A //jetty// is an upper floor that depends on a [|cantilever] system in which a horizontal beam, the jetty bressummer, on which the wall above rests, projects outward beyond the floor below.

2. Timbers
Historically, the timbers would have been hewn square using a felling axe and then finish surfaced with a broad axe. If required, smaller timbers were ripsawn from the hewn baulks using pitsaws or frame saws. Today it is more common for timbers to be bandsawn, and the timbers may sometimes be machine planed on all four sides. The vertical timbers include The horizontal timbers include
 * [|posts] (main supports at corners and other major uprights),
 * [|Wall studs] (subsidiary upright limbs in framed walls), for example, [|close studding].
 * sill-beams (also called ground-sills or sole-pieces, at the bottom of a wall into which posts and studs are fitted using tenons),
 * noggin-pieces (the horizontal timbers forming the tops and bottoms of the frames of infill-panels),
 * wall-plates (at the top of timber-framed walls that support the [|trusses] and [|joists] of the roof **}**