After successful completion of the course, students are able to...

•  design structures like trusses, frames, residential buildings… according to the needs of timber

•  support the design and verification process by intensified use of structural engineering software

• overcome current restrictions within EC5 by adequate structural modelling and use of design software

• critically read and interpret national respective European technical approvals for structural elements and connection systems

• evaluate and plan the option of alternative experimental structural verification

The course encompasses the following thematic issues:

• Criteria for the design of timber structures
• Choice of structural systems
• Ductility and redundancy in timber engineering
• Special types of fasteners
• Swinging of timber structures and earth quakes
• Modeling strategies using engineering design software
• experimental design
• Production and assembling

In a design project, alternative structural systems (global structural system and connections) will be designed, calculated using engineering design software, and critically analyzed.

Oral exam with two questions from the list of questions

Zuordnung im Masterstudium Bauingenieurwesen (Studienkennzahl: 066 505):

Modul 1 der Vertiefungsrichtungen Konstruktiver Ingenieurbau 1 und Konstruktiver Ingenieurbau 2;

Modul 3 der anderen Vertiefungsrichtungen

Concomitant elaboration respective discussion of case studies in the framework of seven workshops

Timber Engineering 1 + Building Materials + Mechanics + Strength of Materials + Structural analysis - statics 1 + Building Construction