Building Preservation in Timber Structures

  • type: lecture/exercise
  • semester: master
  • place:

    Room 701.3, Building 10.50
  • time:

    Mo 14:00 - 15:30
  • start: first week of semester
  • lecturer:

    Matthias Frese
  • sws: 2
  • ects: 3
  • lv-no.: 6213903

Lecture content

  • The history of timber construction
    Development of half-timbered construction and roof structures
    Development of timber bridge construction
  • Static calculation of old timber constructions
    Consideration of yielding
    Notes on modeling (plane - spatial systems)
  • Examination and assessment of an old timber construction
    Strength of old structural timber
    Examination of installed structural timber
  • Calculation of carpentry timber joints
  • Methods of repair and reinforcement
    Conservation concepts
    Repairs, reinforcements, auxiliary constructions

Lecture notes

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