Design in Glass and Wood

Recommended Prerequisites

The pre-requisites of this course are those corresponding to the application for the Master 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 (37,5) to answer questions.

Learning Outcomes

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

Work Placement(s)

No

Syllabus

1a. History and composition: History, chemical composition, production.

2a. Material for load bearing structures.

3a. Design of laminated plates.

4a. Design of beams.

5a. Design of compressed members.

6a. Hybrid beams. Curved glasses.

7a. Design of bolted and glued connections.

8a. Glass facades and roofs.

9a. Application examples in glass.

1b. Introduction to advanced timber structures.

2b. Wood properties and wood engineering products.

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

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

5b. Fire resistance of timber structures.

6b. Durability of timber structures.

7b. New materials.

8b. Application examples in wood.

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.