... building conservation buildings structures & design built environment conservation heritage buildings rehabilitation strength & testing of materials sustainability Tabique Tabique buildings timber structures UN SDG 13: Climate action The authors are very grateful for the support...

...Ya-Jie Wu; Wei Meng; Wen-Shao Chang; Qi-Fang Xie; Li-Peng Zhang Columns in traditional Chinese timber structures barely rest on stone bases, and the column foot joints are capable of resisting moment around any direction. This study numerically investigated the spatial rotational behaviour...

... 14 11 2023 Emerald Publishing Limited: All rights reserved 2024 cyclic exposure historic building repair shape memory alloy timber structures UN SDG 9: Industry, innovation and infrastructure UN SDG 11: Sustainable cities and communities The timber connection design...

... engineering government information technology rehabilitation temporary works timber structures The devastating fire of Notre Dame in Paris, on 15 April 2019, underlined the belief by many restorers, particularly in France, that major incidents are part of the life of any historical structures...

... with it than modelling purely in the Revit software, as this section goes on to explain. Building Information Modelling (BIM) conservation history timber structures This paper describes a heritage building information model (HBIM) used to record permanently the tangible and intangible aspects...

... Department for Timber Structures of the Central Research Institute for Industrial Constructions (SDK CNIPS). Led by the equally young and energetic Genrich Karlsen, the laboratory conceptualised, constructed, tested and improved the structures. Various publications followed, focusing on the load-bearing...

... , 2016b) conducted a series of dynamic and static tests on complex bracket systems of Dieh-Dou-type timber structures and proposed the application of semi-rigid spring models to estimate the in-plane behaviour and resistance of the system when subjected to horizontal loadings. Although the dimensions...

...Wenjun Xie, MEng, PhD; Tsung-Hsien Wang, PhD; Wen-Shao Chang, PhD The Dou-Gong system in Asian timber structures plays an important role in resisting seismic action. Traditional carpentry in Asia uses timber pegs to connect components, which enables relative movement between components and hence...

... before becoming a training college in the shape of two quadrangles of buildings. It has recently undergone a major refurbishment which involved the inspection and repair of all timber structures, in particular the roof trusses around the main quadrangle, some of which date to the fourteenth century. Many...

... to proponents of modern timber bridges, with their critics arguing that timber structures would fail to satisfy the service life requirements. In reality, what actually had a greater influence on their performance and longevity; timber's inherent liability to decay, or deficiencies in their design...

... with straight sides. history timber structures waterways & canals Lock gates on most British canals have always been made of wood, with wrought iron, later welded steel, strengthening straps and plates; each canal company has its own specific style of construction. Historically, other...

... and problems under dynamic loading, timber bridges were considerably safer than cast-iron bridges. Of the thousands constructed in the UK, none failed under service. 26 05 2013 05 11 2013 ICE Publishing: All rights reserved 2014 bridges failures timber structures The nineteenth...

... (Bredon) in 1889 (Birmingham and Gloucester Railway), by permission of the National Archives (ref: RAIL 491/836) ICE Publishing: All rights reserved 2013 bridges history timber structures Of the numerous types of timber bridges built on British and Irish railways in the nineteenth...