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Automatic joinery has become a common technique for the jointing of beams in timber framing and roofing. It has revived traditional, integral joints such as mortise and tenon connections. Similarly, but only recently, the automatic fabrication of tradition ...

2015

This presentation presents our reserach into the design and potential applications of CNC fabricated snap-fit joints for cross-laminated veneer lumber panels (LVL). These joints are new to the building construction sector, but commonly used in other domain ...

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Snap-fit Joints - CNC fabricated, Integrated Mechanical Attachment for Structural Wood Panels

Yves Weinand, Christopher Werner Matthias Robeller, Paul Mayencourt

Riverside Architectural Press2014

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The prototype presented in this chapter utilizes the technique of curved folding for the design of a thin-shell structure built from curved cross-laminated timber panels (CLT). The curved-folded geometry allows for a span of 13.5 m, at a shell thickness of ...

Springer International Publishing2014

Robot-manufactured joints for a curved-folded thin-shell CLT structure

Christopher Werner Matthias Robeller

The "Curved-folded Wood Pavilion" utilizes the technique of curved folding for the design of a thin-shell structure built from curved cross-laminated timber panels (CLT). The curved-folded geometry allows the structure to span over 13.5 m, at a shell thick ...

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Interlocking Folded Plate - Integrated Mechanical Attachment for Structural Timber Panels

Yves Weinand, Christopher Werner Matthias Robeller, Andrea Stitic, Paul Mayencourt

Automatic joinery has become a common technique for the jointing of beams in timber framing and roofing. It has revived traditional, integrated joints such as mortise and tenon connections. Similarly, but only recently, the automatic fabri- cation of tradi ...

Springer Verlag2014

Interlocking Folded Plate – Integrated Mechanical Attachment for Structural Timber Panels

Christopher Werner Matthias Robeller

2014

Upscaling of Friction Welding of Wood for structural Applications

Benjamin Hahn

The present work deals with the large-scale application of the friction welding bonding technology on timber. The investigations that are described in the following were carried out on a prototype of a welding machine that was previously developed for the ...

EPFL2014

Up to now chemical adhesives based on polyurethane are used for the assembling of timber planks to large-scale structural elements, in particular cross-laminated timber panels (CLT), which opened new possibilities for architects and engineers in timber con ...

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Innovative Timber Constructions

Yves Weinand

Practical and material orientated academic research has become increasingly important for architectural practice. This is due to several reasons. First of all, it contributes to contemporary concepts in architecture and improves their implementation. Today ...

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