Curricula

Objective

Purpose of the course:
The knowledge and skills you will need in this course will enable you to design load-bearing timber structures for demanding class applications.

Course competences:
Knowledge and understanding: Knowledge and understanding of the applicable analytical, design and research/development techniques and methods and their limitations in your area of specialisation. The ability to communicate effectively information, ideas, problems and solutions within the engineering community.
Communication and teamwork: Ability to function effectively as an individual, team member and entrepreneur.
Interdisciplinary skills: the ability to keep abreast of scientific and technological developments.
Practical application of technology: the ability to analyse complex technical products, processes and systems and to correctly interpret the results of such analyses, with the ability to select and have the practical skills to apply well-established analytical, computational and experimental techniques and methods appropriate to the situation.

Course objective:
You will be able to design and dimension load-bearing timber structures of demanding class in the fracture and service limit state. You will be able to consider site practices for timber frame construction.

Content

Industrial wood construction. Frame systems and measurement systems. Sizing and stiffening of structural components and joints in the frame of a large frame building. Dimensioning of timber columns and variable height beams, structural frame connections, fire dimensioning of timber members and connections, structural weakening. Sizing of basic elements of CLT structures. Moisture management for timber structures.

Qualifications

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, overall stiffening of a NR truss structure, vibration of a floor structure, basics of power connections.

Assessment criteria, satisfactory (1)

Intermediate (1): the student knows and recognises the issues described in the learning outcomes of the course and is able to perform the tasks described in the learning outcomes of the course.

Satisfactory (2): The student knows, identifies and understands the issues described in the learning outcomes of the course. The student can demonstrate his/her competence by describing the topics covered in the course in a systematic way.

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.