Advanced construction with timber

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 framework for the analysis and design of timber structures and their components. To describe the additional 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. This curricular unit has also aims to transmit some guidelines for the modelling of timber.

Work Placement(s)

No

Syllabus

1. Basic concepts.

2. Wood properties and wood engineering products.

3. Analysis and design of timber structures.

4. Analysis and design of timber based composite structures.

5. Fire resistance of timber structures.

6. Durability of timber structures.

7. Tall buildings.

8. Application examples. 

Assessment Methods

Periodic Assessment
Synthesis work: 50.0%
Exam: 50.0%

Final Assessment
Exam: 100.0%

Bibliography

i) Wurm J.: Glass Structures, Birkhauser, 2007, ISBN 978-3-7643-7608-6.

ii) STEP “STEP - Timber Engineering ”. First Edition Centrum Hout, The Netherlands, 1995.

iii) Wood Handbook - Forest products laboratory, United States Department of Agriculture (disponivel na internet).

iv) Natterer, J., Herzog, T., Volz, M., “Construire en Bois 2” . Presses polytechniques et universitaires romandes, Switzerland,1991 Dias, A. M. P. G., J. Schaenzlin and P. Dietisch (2018). State of the Art Report of v) Hybrid Structures - COST FP1402, COST FP1402.