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AS 5068-2006

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Timber — Finger joints in structural products — Production requirements

specifies requirements for bonded finger joints and minimum requirements for the manufacture of cut, interlocking, bonded finger joints in structural timber members. Requirements are also given for timber, adhesive, moisture content, cutting, bonding, preservative treatments and flame-retardant treatments.

Published: 26/06/2006

Pages: 14

Table of contents

Cited references

Content history

Table of contents

Header

About this publication

PREFACE

1 SCOPE

2 REFERENCED DOCUMENTS

3 DEFINITIONS

4 SERVICE CLASSIFICATION

4.1 Service Class 1

4.2 Service Class 2

4.3 Service Class 3

5 NOTATION

6 GENERAL REQUIREMENTS

6.1 General

6.2 Timber

6.2.1 Species

6.2.2 Knots and fissures

6.3 Adhesives

6.4 Finger joint strength

7 MANUFACTURING REQUIREMENTS

7.1 Conditions

7.2 Timber

7.3 Adhesives application

7.4 Assembly and end pressure

7.4.1 Assembly

7.4.2 End pressure

7.5 Preservative and flame retardant treatments

8 QUALITY CONTROL—FACTORY PRODUCTION CONTROL

8.1 General

8.2 Strength assessment

8.2.1 Sampling

8.2.2 Testing

8.2.3 Compliance—Finger-jointed timber

8.3 Assessment of adhesive bond durability for Service Class 2 or 3 exposure

8.3.1 Sampling

8.3.2 Wet conditioning of specimens

8.3.3 Testing

8.3.4 Compliance

9 IDENTIFICATION

APPENDIX A

APPENDIX B

B1 SCOPE

B2 PRINCIPLE

B3 APPARATUS

B4 PREPARATION OF TEST SPECIMENS

B4.1 General

B4.2 Finger-jointed timber

B4.3 Finger-jointed laminations

B5 PROCEDURE

B6 CALCULATIONS

APPENDIX C

C1 SCOPE

C2 PRINCIPLE

C3 APPARATUS

C4 PREPARATION OF TEST SPECIMENS

C4.1 General

C4.2 Finger-jointed timber

C4.3 Finger-jointed laminations

C5 PROCEDURE

C6 CALCULATIONS

APPENDIX D

Amendment control sheet

Cited references in this standard

ASTM D4688

Standard Test Method for Evaluating Structural Adhesives for Finger Jointing Lumber

AS/NZS 4491:1997

[Current]

Timber — Glossary of terms in timber-related Standards

AS/NZS 4364:2010

[Current]

Timber — Bond performance of structural adhesives

AS/NZS 1604

Specification for preservative treatment (all Parts)

AS 3519-2005

[Current]

Timber — Machine proof grading

Content history

AS 5068-2006 AMDT 1

[Current]

AS/NZS 1491:1996

[Superseded]

DR 02443

AS 5068-2006 Rec:2016

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