Study Guide

Learning objectives

The student masters the dimensioning and stiffening of the structures of wooden frame apartment buildings.

Content

- Use of wood in apartment building construction, architecture, building physics, fire safety, sound insulation
- Building technology, energy and resource efficiency, carbon footprint, wood surface treatment, maintenance and service
- Construction of a wooden apartment building, construction site technology

Structural calculations for wooden apartment buildings:
- Wooden apartment building frame operation, frame systems
- Function of structures assembled from elements as stiffening and load-bearing structures, dimensioning of anchoring of stiffening walls
- Dimensioning of frame structures, dimensioning of frame, CLT and LVL structures

Connection techniques:
- Application of pin connection theory
- Screw and angle plate connections
- Joints between CLT and LVL structures
- computer program: FemDesign3dStructure program

Prerequisites

Statics, Mechanics of Materials, Basics of Structural Engineering and Steel Building, Building Physics, Timber Structures 1

Materials

Suomalainen puukerrostalo - Rakenteet, suunnittelu ja rakentaminen (Finnish wooden apartment building - Structures, design and construction), Authors: Tolppanen, Janne: Karjalainen, Markku: Lahtela, Tero: Viljakainen Mikko. National Board of Education, 2013. ISBN: 978-952-13-5541-7.
- Materials distributed during the course.
- Wood information material: Course material for demanding wooden structures (VaaPu)
- Design of timber structures Abbreviated design guide Eurocode 5
- RIL 205-1-2017 Design guidelines for wooden structures Eurocode
- RIL 201-1-2017 Design criteria and structural loads. Eurocode

Qualifications

Statics, Mechanics of Materials, Basics of Structural Engineering and Steel Building, Building Physics, Timber Structures 1