Wood Frame Module Layout for Faster Building Assembly
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Solution Overview
Problem
Construction of extensive wood frame platforms in buildings is labor-intensive and inefficient, leading to high costs and material waste, while prefabricated modular panels have not been widely adopted for floors, ceilings, and roofs.
Innovation Solution
The use of expeditiously fabricated modules with standardized layouts for floors, walls, and roofs, where each module's longitudinal axis is perpendicular to the building's length axis, allowing for automated assembly and improved structural integrity, soundproofing, and thermal insulation.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Reliability
If conventional wood framing is constructed by cutting and coupling individual boards at a construction site, then structural integrity is maintained, but labor costs increase and material waste increases
Solution Approach 1:
The building frame is divided into discrete modular components (walls, floors, ceilings, roofs) that can be manufactured separately and then assembled. Each module is a self-contained unit with standardized connections, allowing parallel production and reducing on-site labor requirements while maintaining structural integrity through standardized joining methods.
Solution Approach 2:
Modular components are fabricated in advance during manufacturing processes rather than being constructed on-site. This preliminary fabrication allows for optimized material usage, reduced waste, and standardized construction methods that improve both productivity and structural reliability.
2Productivity
If prefabricated modular panels are used for floors, ceilings, and roofs, then assembly speed increases, but structural integrity and adaptability are compromised
Solution Approach 1:
The modular components are designed with universal connection interfaces and standardized dimensions that allow them to be used across different building configurations. This universality maintains structural integrity while enabling rapid assembly, as the same modular units can adapt to various structural requirements through standardized joining mechanisms.
3Ease of manufacture
If modules are fabricated with standardized layouts, then manufacturing costs decrease, but design flexibility is reduced
Solution Approach 1:
The modular system incorporates adjustable and reconfigurable components that can be adapted to different design requirements. Standardized modules can be arranged in various configurations and adjusted to accommodate different structural needs, maintaining both manufacturing efficiency and design flexibility through dynamic reconfiguration capabilities.
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AI summary
A method of constructing a frame of a wood frame building structure is shown and described. The method entails fabricating modules establishing nominally flat structural platforms for expediting assembly of floors, walls, ceilings, and a roof. These modules provide structural frames enabling appropriate finishing materials to be affixed thereto. The finishing materials provide continuous, flat surfaces, with exceptions for penetrations. The method includes assembling the modules such that a longitudinal axis of each model is parallel to those of other modules throughout the frame and perpendicular to a building length axis. Also, each module includes ceiling joists, floor joists, and roof rafters, as appropriate, such joists and roof rafters installed parallel to the building length axis and therefore, perpendicular to the joists and roof rafters. This method minimizes assembly costs of modules and of the framing, while retaining conventional framing performance.