Hi friends, Today is already episode #18 of the timber design series. In the previous episodes we learned how to verify timber elements for bending, shear, torsion, etc. We also learned how to verify timber elements like slabs, walls and beams. I showed you how to verify timber slabs for vibration (you'll find the links to the previous articles in the end of this e-mail). These verifications are only the basics of timber design, because the most critical and challenging part of timber design...
14 days ago • 2 min read
Happy Wednesday friends, Today, we'll cover CLT walls, and I'll show you how to design and verify it according to Eurocode. To design the CLT walls, I'll show a free software tool that I use myself whenever I design CLT walls. It's called Calculatis and it's made by Stora Enso which is a CLT manufacturer. Let's get into it.. The 8 Steps To Verify CLT Walls According To Eurocode Let's use the following system as an example to verify the CLT wall. The picture only shows the CLT wall and...
21 days ago • 3 min read
Happy New Year and welcome back, Today, we'll cover timber stud walls, and I'll show you how to design and verify it according to Eurocode. What is a Timber Stud Wall? Timber stud walls consist of a horizontal timber beam at the top and the bottom and vertical timber beams/columns. On the inside and outside timber plates are used to stabilise the element. The 8 Steps To Verify Timber Stud Walls According To Eurocode Let's use the following system as an example to verify the stud wall. The...
about 1 month ago • 5 min read
Happy Wednesday and welcome back, Today, we'll cover CLT floors, and I'll show you how to design and verify it according to Eurocode. What is a CLT Floor? Before designing it, we first need to know what CLT and a CLT floor is and how it works. CLT stands for cross-laminated timber. It means that timber layers (in most cases structural wood like C24) are stacked together at right angles. Like for example the first layer points in y-direction, layer 2 and 4 in x-direction, while layers 3 and 5...
2 months ago • 5 min read
Hi friends, Folk supports are used in the lateral torsional buckling analysis of timber, steel and precast concrete beams. Whether the supports are folk supports or not has a huge impact on the buckling resistance of the beams. In this newsletter, you’ll learn what folk supports are, and I show you 5 examples of supports which are and are not folk supports. What Exactly is a Fork Support? Short explanation: The term fork support means that, at support, the beam is prevented from twisting...
2 months ago • 1 min read
Hi friends, There are a bunch of different timber floor types that we can choose from. timber joist floor CLT floors prefabricated timber floors (differs from manufacturer to manufacturer) timber composite floors I have personally worked with all 4 types already. Timber structures are quite common in Germany and more and more trendy as sustainability becomes more important. We'll cover some of these floor systems in the next couple of weeks. Today, we'll start with the timber joist floor, and...
3 months ago • 8 min read
Hi friends, One disadvantage of timber floors is its vibration behavior because of its little weight. Vibration is a phenomenon in structural engineering that needs to be investigated for light-weight structures like timber floors or steel staircases. Because if the frequencies are too little, people might feel unwell. In many cases, that's the vibration analysis is the most critical verification of timber floors. In this newsletter, I'll show you how to verify timber joist floors for...
3 months ago • 4 min read
Hi friends, Today we'll design a timber column. The 4 Steps To Verify Timber Columns According To Eurocode Let's use the center column of the canopy structure that we also used in the last episodes as an example to show the calculation steps. Step #1: Define the material properties of the timber element We first define the material properties of the timber column. In this tutorial, we'll use C24 as the timber material. For small structures like this which aren't exposed to big loads, C24 is...
3 months ago • 3 min read
Hi friends, In the last weeks, we learned all the basics of timber design. Today we'll design the first timber element: a timber beam. Also, I wanted to thank you guys for your support with Module #2. I hope it'll help you in your engineerng journey and if you have any suggestions of making it better, please reach out! After having received so much good feedback already about Module #1 and #2, I have already started with Module #3: Structural Design of Reinforced Slabs and Walls of a...
4 months ago • 5 min read
