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A Calculation Method for Interconnected Timber Elements Using Wood-Wood Connections

Yves Weinand, Julien Gamerro, Jean-François Bocquet

Wood-wood connections, widely used in the past, have been progressively replaced by steel fasteners in timber constructions. Currently, they can be manufactured and implemented more efficiently thanks to digital fabrication techniques. In addition, with th ...

2020

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This paper describes the construction process of a scenographic structure five meters high spiral. It consists of following parts: CAD modeling workflow, prototyping and FEM structural calculation, assembly and on-site loading test. The structure was compo ...

IASS2019

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This paper describes the design, fabrication, and construction process of a scenography structure representing a five-meter height spiral made out of 3-ply crosslaminated panels. The structure includes 29 timber boxes. Typical through-tenon wood-wood joi ...

2019

STRUCTURAL FORM-FINDING FROM RECLAIMED BAR ELEMENTS

Joseph Jean François Desruelle

This thesis applies structural optimization techniques to develop a general methodology for design from reuse. A thorough case study serves as proof-of-concept. Reusing elements from dismantled structures appears as a promising, yet little explored approac ...

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“Structural UHPFRC” stands for Ultra-High Performance Fiber Reinforced Cementitious Composite material that is complemented by reinforcing and prestressing steel to enhance the resistance and durability of structural elements. Properties of impermeable, te ...

RILEM Publications S.A.R.L.2018

Predicting the Change in Natural Period of Building due to Damage

The automation of the visual detection of structural elements and cracks have the potential in the future to greatly improve the post-earthquake safety evaluation of buildings in terms of time and accuracy. In addition, models could be combined with these ...

2018

Reuse in Architecture & Structural Design

Jan Friedrich Georg Brütting

Introduction The construction industry has an extensive impact on the global environment and will be facing three big challenges in the next decades: reducing its resource consumption, decreasing its energy use, and limiting its waste production. This is e ...

2018

"Impossibile da calcolare!" Il cantiere della buvette di Évian-les-Bains, fra intuizione creativa e rigore intellettuale (M.Novarina, J.Prouvé, S.Ketoff, 1955-57)

Giulia Marino

Precision mechanics: the buvette (pump room) of Évian-les-Bains is not just an architecture of great formal elegance, but above all an extraordinary technological object, a machine carefully calibrated, in equilibrium. Architectural criticism has largely d ...

Cuzzolin editore2018

Automation is increasingly present in the construction industry, whether at the design, manufacturing or assembly stage. Thanks to new technologies, such as robotics, new ways of designing structural elements can be imagined and implemented. Complex method ...

2018

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The structural behavior of GFRP-polyurethane (PUR) web-core sandwich structures subjected to sustained loading was investigated. As a basis, a study of the mechanical behavior of rigid PUR foams used as core materials was conducted, with emphasis on creep. ...

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