In order to face the rising challenges of increased global warming, coming up with new and sustainable solutions for the building industry is important. This has led to an increased interest for timber as a building material, ...

This thesis treats ambient vibration testing of civil engineering structures with a special attention given to timber structures. It presents an open-source Python module that allows to perform two very much used output-only ...

This master thesis presents an empirical assessment of glulam subjected to compression perpendicular to the grain (CPG) with reinforcement. prEN 1995-1-1 will replace the current Eurocode 5, NS-EN 1995-1-1 - Design of ...

Nowadays, there are several proposed methods of deciding the yield point when calculating the results from an experimental research on timber structures with mechanical fasteners. How does this affect the analysis of the ...

Multi-storey timber buildings are often built around a post and beam system made of glulam. Typically adopted connections for such structures are those which make use of slotted-in steel plates and dowels. Even though such ...

So far, few in situtests have been carried out to estimate the modal parameters of multi-storey Cross-Laminated-Timber (CLT) buildings: the understanding of their dynamic behaviour under operational conditions is still an ...

Older RC frame structures are often not designed considering seismic action, and their failure when subjected to strong earthquakes causes great human and economic losses. Most existing retrofitting solutions are costly, ...

Lack of seismic capacity is a common problem for older low-rise, reinforced concrete frame structures. To tackle this problem, a new friction energy dissipating system meant for retrofitting, is proposed. The system consists ...