Timber Construction

Recommended Prerequisites

The pre-requisites of this course are those corresponding to the application for the PhD course CMM.

Teaching Methods

Lectures (30 hours) with detailed exposition, using visual aids, concepts, principles and theories and to solve some practical exercises that meet all the needs of students with guidelines on the matter. Tutorial lessons (22.5 hours) to answer questions.
Assessment: written examination (100%) or written examination (50%) and written work with oral presentation (50%).

Learning Outcomes

The aim of this course is to give students the latest knowledge about the timber structures. To describe the basic concepts regarding properties and performance of timber as a construction material as well as their specificities and to develop an awareness of significance of timber as a traditional structural material. To present the design methods for timber structures.

Work Placement(s)

No

Syllabus

1. Introduction to advanced timber structures.

2. Wood properties and wood engineering products.

3. Limit states design (structural members, connections, components, assemblies and composite structures (Euroc. 5).

4. Timber bridges: types, design, connections and maintenance.

5. Fire resistance of timber structures.

6. Durability of timber structures.

7. New materials.

8. Application examples.

Assessment Methods

Assessment
Exam: 100.0%

Bibliography

Wurm J.: Glass Structures, Birkhauser, 2007, ISBN 978-3-7643-7608-6.
STEP “STEP - Timber Engineering ”. First Edition Centrum Hout, The Netherlands, 1995.
Wood Handbook - Forest products laboratory, United States Department of Agriculture (disponivel na internet)
Natterer, J., Herzog, T., Volz, M., “Construire en Bois 2” . Presses polytechniques et universitaires romandes, Switzerland,1991