Instructor: Karantoni Triantafilia
Course code: 5952
Semester: 10ο
e-class: http://eclass.upatras.gr/courses/CIV1540/
Course content:
- Basics on wood structure
- Macro- and micro-structure of wood
- Actions and environmental influences
- Load-duration classes
- Service classes
- Mechanical properties of wood
- Solid timber
- Glued laminated timber
- Laminated veneer lumber (LVL)
- Wood-based panels
- Design
- Design of cross-sections under tension parallel and perpendicular to the grain, under compression parallel and perpendicular to the grain, under bending, under shear and torsion
- Cross-sections under combined bending and axial tension, under combined bending and axial compression
- Stability of members
- Design of cross-sections in members with varying cross-section or curved shape
- Connection with metal fasteners
- Timber-to-timber and panel-to-timber connections
- Steel-to-timber connections
- Nailed, bolted, doweled and screwed connections
- Components and Assemblies
- Glued thin-webbed beams, glued thin-flanged beams
- Mechanically jointed beams, mechanically jointed and glued columns
- Trusses with punched metal plate fasteners
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