Special Timber Structures

Recommended Prerequisites

Basis of timber design.
Structural Analysis.

Dynamic Analysis.

Teaching Methods

The course intends to exercise the design in real pratice along all design stages. An architectural and/or deployment plant must be taken in consideration. FE software is also a mandatory tool for the job. The evaluation will be made through a design project.

Learning Outcomes

This course intends to discuss and promote the conception of special timber structures, throught it's analysis, code confirmation and detailing. Are included hereby, namely, tall buildings, bridges, 3D trusses, gridshells or others with big span. 

Work Placement(s)

No

Syllabus

Structural design for one of the following systems: road bridges, footbridges, towers, tall buildings, big-span roofs, 3D trusses and gridshells.

Assessment Methods

Assessment
Project: 100.0%

Bibliography

- Structural Eurocodes
- Projecto de Estruturas de Madeira - João Negrão e Amorim Faria- Publindústria 2009.

- Timber Construction Manual - Herzog, T.; Natterer, J.; Schweitzer, R.; Volz, M., Winter, W.- Birkhauser Munich, 2000

- Timber Engineering STEP. First Edition, Centrum Hout, Almere, 1995, The Netherlands.

- Wood Handbook – Forest Pproducts Laboratory, United States Department of Agriculture.