... & testing of materials sustainability Tabique Tabique buildings timber structures UN SDG 13: Climate action The authors are very grateful for the support granted by the Research Unit of C-MADE Centre of Materials and Civil Engineering for Sustainability, through the Project reference UID/04082...

...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...

... relationship of one of the five steel bars under cyclic loading (corresponding author: haoyu.huang@newcastle.ac.uk) 04 07 2023 14 11 2023 Emerald Publishing Limited: All rights reserved 2024 cyclic exposure historic building repair shape memory alloy timber structures UN SDG...

.... (d.theodossopoulos@ed.ac.uk) 02 05 2023 03 05 2023 ICE Publishing: All rights reserved 2023 conservation fire engineering government information technology rehabilitation temporary works timber structures The devastating fire of Notre Dame in Paris, on 15 April 2019, underlined...

... timber structures This paper describes a heritage building information model (HBIM) used to record permanently the tangible and intangible aspects of a heritage structure, Kasthamandap, in Nepal (see Figure 1 for a photograph of Kasthamandap before 2015). Kasthamandap, literally translated...

... 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...

...-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 and configurations of the specimens were different from those of the specimens...

...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...

... at Beeston in 1828 to overcome the poor foundation conditions, although he still used wooden gates.) 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...

... services. bridges failures timber structures The Yarmouth branch was opened in 1844, and the Lowestoft branch in 1847, if the timber used in the bridges on these branches was of first quality they could have hardly in the interval that has elapsed fallen into the state of utter decay which...

... the piers as with arched structures. In his book, Stevenson reproduced drawings provided to him by the French-trained engineer Moncure Robinson (1802–1891) (Stevenson, 1838 : p. 231). bridges history timber structures This paper looks at the development of timber-lattice bridges in the UK...