Study Guide

Objectives

After completing the course, the student will be able to:
• describe the most essential dimensioning technical aspects of demanding wooden buildings and the most important special properties of wooden materials, direction for steel and concrete structures
• identify and name the frame systems of demanding wooden structures, the main beam shapes and the industrial wood element products used
• draw up structural plans for commercial, industrial and warehouse buildings with a glulam frame, including structural calculations and drawings, with the help of CAD
• evaluate and compare the main demanding load-bearing wooden structures, their construction methods and their most important considerations (e.g. thermal insulation, fire, load-bearing capacity) and good practices for moisture management

Content

Structural design of demanding wooden structures, including:
• design principles
• material properties: CLT, wooden boards, adhesives, corrosion resistance of metal connectors
• serviceability limit state dimensioning: joint displacements
• breaking limit design: overturning support, variable-height and curved beams, reinforcement of support pressure, notched rods, holes in beams
• mechanical connections: screw connections (ETA dimensioning), bolt connections
• assembled construction parts: transverse bracing of the beam
• structural systems: overall bracing of the hall building, glulam hall and wooden roof elements, wooden apartment buildings
• fire dimensioning: design principles, fire regulations for glulam halls, the most common fire-dimensioned structures,
• wooden structure plan documents: RAK plans of the glue-laminated timber hall
• SFS 5978
• Industrial wood element production: HalliPES 2.0
• Tools for wood structure design: dimensioning programs
• Preparing the structural plans of the glulam hall and reading/commenting on RAK plans made by others.

Prerequisites

5R00GR05 Wood Structures or equivalent knowledge

Assessment criteria, satisfactory (1-2)

The student can identify and define the various structures of a glulam hall building and their connections.
The student completes the structural design tasks of the glulam hall building under guidance, but does not know how to justify the choices he made.
The student knows how to give and receive feedback on a structural design assignment, evaluating the assignment from their own perspective.

Assessment criteria, good (3-4)

The student can structure and partially apply the various structures of a glulam hall building and their connections.
The student knows how to choose the most suitable of the various available structural options for a glulam hall, knows how to prepare structural plans for a glulam hall building, and also knows how to justify his solution.
The student can independently solve structural design questions that arise.
The student can give and receive feedback actively and constructively about the structural design task, looking at things in a multidisciplinary way.

Assessment criteria, excellent (5)

The student has a broad understanding of the various structures of a glulam hall building and their connections, as well as the entities formed from them.
The student knows how to search for different structural and solution options for a glulam hall and can draw up structural plans for a glulam hall building, creatively utilizing different solution options or even creating new ones.
The student understands the economic effects of choosing different structural solutions.
The student systematically uses the feedback to his advantage as a tool for his own professional growth.