Curricula

Objective

Purpose of the course:
The knowledge and skills in this course will enable you to design timber structures of a standard level of sophistication.

Course competences:
Knowledge and understanding: Knowledge and understanding of the appropriate materials, equipment, tools, technologies and processes and their limitations in your area of specialisation.
Communication and teamwork: the ability to work effectively as an individual, team member and entrepreneur.
Interdisciplinary competences: ability to identify and commit to the need for independent lifelong learning. Ability to assess and develop skills and learning styles in a variety of learning environments.
Practical application of technology: Ability to apply technical standards and established guidelines for professional practices in one's field.

Course objective:

The student will be familiar with the structural properties of wood-based materials from the perspective of the design of load-bearing timber structures in the fracture and service limit state in a conventional structural design task. The application of wood products. The student will be able to integrate and apply his/her knowledge of phenomena related to structural behaviour in the design of timber structures. These are also the basic tasks of the course.

Content

Content: material properties of wood and derived products for structural design, design of structural elements of a load-bearing timber frame (poles and columns, beams), plate stiffening, total stiffening of a NR-frame structure, vibration of a floor structure, basics of power connections

Qualifications

Structural strength knowledge: determination of stresses, determination of deflections and displacements by formulae, buckling, buckling, collapse, basics of combined stress, basics of dimensioning of structural elements, deflections by tables.

Assessment criteria, satisfactory (1)

Intermediate (1): The student knows and recognises the topics described in the course objectives and is able to perform the tasks according to the course objectives: material properties of wood and derived products for structural design, design of structural elements of a load-bearing timber frame (posts and columns, beams), plate stiffening, vibration of floor structure, joints.

Satisfactory (2): The student knows, identifies and understands the issues described in the learning objectives of the course. The student can demonstrate competence by systematically describing the topics covered in the course.

Assessment criteria, good (3)

Good (3): the student has achieved the learning objectives of the course and is able to demonstrate his/her knowledge in a clear and understandable way. The student is able to articulate the learning in a clear and concise manner and to apply it to practical tasks.

Excellent (4). The student is able to describe the effects of different solutions and to make informed choices between alternatives.

Assessment criteria, excellent (5)

Excellent (5): the student has achieved the learning objectives of the course with excellent results. In addition, the student is able to examine the topics of the course theoretically and apply them critically in practice. Competence is demonstrated in a coherent and multidimensional manner.