abstract:A bressummer, breastsummer, and summer beam (somier, sommier, sommer, somer, cross-somer, summer, summier,A Dictionary of the Old English Language summer-tree,1913 Webster or dorman, dormant tree) in a timber framed building, is a beam which carries a load.
This article dealswith the compositeaction between bressummer and wallon it in wall beam, andputs forwarddiscussionandproposal to the calculationmethodincurrentnationalcode.