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