Timber Structures I
Period
Winter semester
CPs
4,0
Exam
Written (or oral) examination
Prerequisite
Homework (during the semester)
Content
- Timber as a building material: properties, classification, safety concept EN 1995
- Solid wood and glued-laminated timber as building material: Mechanical behaviour, design values
- Structural timber systems: boundary conditions, assessment of internal forces and deformation
- Design of timber cross sections
- Stabilitiy of timber components: lateral buckling, flexual buckling of simple beams
- Built-up sections
- Fastener: nails, peg-shaped steel-connections (nails, bolts, dowels), proprietary connector, nail plates
- Connections:
- Carpenter connections
- Timber compatible construction with connections
- Simple verifications of pencil-shaped connections
- Complex verifications of rod shaped connections and proprietary connectors
- Application and proof of nail plate connections
- Roof structures