Course detail

Timber Structures

FAST-O25Acad. year: 2024/2025

Wood as a building material. Timber in construction. Solid timber, glued laminated timber, wood-based materials. Material properties.
Limit states and design situations – design requirements, ultimate limit states, serviceability limit states. Stress-strain relations. Calculation models.
Tension, compression, bending, shear, torsion, combined bending and axial tension, combined bending and axiel compression.
Columns and beams. Trusses – general analysis, trusses with punched metal plate fasteners. Roof and floor diaphragms. Bracing of beam or truss systems.
Joints – timber-to-timber joints, steel-to-timber joints, joints made with punched metal plate fasteners. Structural detailing and control.
Structural systems – plane frames and arches, timber frame houses, timber concrete composite structures, roundwood structures, spatial frames and domes.
Learning from failures.

Language of instruction

Czech

Number of ECTS credits

3

Mode of study

Not applicable.

Guarantor

doc. Ing. Bohumil Straka, CSc.

Department

Institute of Metal and Timber Structures (KDK)

Entry knowledge

Building Materials, Structural Mechanics, Members of Metal Structures, Metal Structures

Rules for evaluation and completion of the course

Extent and forms are specified by guarantor’s regulation updated for every academic year.

Aims

The objective of the subject is to introduce students to the problems of this course and to practise acquired knowledge and skills.

Study aids

Not applicable.

Prerequisites and corequisites

Not applicable.

Basic literature

Blass, H. J. and col.: Timber Engineering, STEP 1. Centrum Hout, The Netherlands 1995
Blass, H. J. and col.: Timber Engineering, STEP 2. Centrum Hout, The Netherlands 1996

Recommended literature

Not applicable.

Type of course unit

 

Lecture

26 hod., optionally

Teacher / Lecturer

doc. Ing. Bohumil Straka, CSc.

Syllabus

1. History of timber structures review, development prospects, field of timber structures application in civil engineering 2. Properties of wood and wood-based materials for structural purposes, material characteristics 3. Spatial configuration of timber structures, bent types, bracing systems 4. Rules of computer modelling of timber structures – structural geometry, bearing members connection, supports, material and cross-sectional characteristics, loading 5. Limit states in timber structures, methods of their verifying 6. Basic types of strain of timber members and timber structures elements 7. Connections of timber structures and examples of basic structural details 8. Plane solid girders, frames, and arches, glue laminated structures 9. Truss girders, frames, and arches, guiding details of joints 10. Basic types of spatial structures – spatial trusses, ribbed domes, vaults, shells and folded grids. 11. Timber structures for residential, administrative, agricultural and other purposes 12. Production, assembly, protection and maintenance of timber structures, fire resistance 13. Principles of timber structures reconstruction and rehabilitation

Exercise

13 hod., compulsory

Teacher / Lecturer

doc. Ing. Bohumil Straka, CSc.