Sustainable design concepts for short span, timber-only structures
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A4 Artikkeli konferenssijulkaisussa
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Date
2019-10
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en
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8
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Form and Force, Proceedings of the IASS Annual Symposia, Volume 2019
Abstract
The construction sector is one of the major contributors to greenhouse gas emission. Therefore, sus- tainability and more environmentally friendly structural concepts and structures structures are becoming increasingly relevant. Timber, as a natural grown building material, can play a key role in this process, in particular due to its large potential of reducing CO2 emissions. Currently, salvaged material from the fabrication process of engineered wood products or from construction processes is incinerated for energy recovery. Thus, the full environmental potential of timber has not yet been achieved. In this study, a novel, low-tech design concept for short span structures is introduced. The structural system is entirely based on wooden products, including salvaged material. Individual timber boards with uniform or variable dimensions are connected with hardwood nails to load bearing members. At present, the used hardwood nails contain a minimum amount of adhesive, which is attributed to the production process, but in the long run, the project is aiming for timber-only structures. This paper presents a range of design proposals for different batches of salvaged materials having differ- ent dimensions. Our approach is driven by the following three guiding aspects: firstly by the limitation of the possible timber board patterns, which result from the used material; secondly by the assembly process, which aims for the ease of use and its robustness against assembly-errors; thirdly by the arrangement of the nails, which allow for the highest possible grade of flexibility in design and material use and which respect the aforementioned aspects. Experimental investigations of the connection between adjacent timber boards using hardwood nails have been performed. Due to the variable dimensions of salvaged material a wide range of hardwood nails and different nails patterns have been investigated. Based on the results of the experimental investigations, the main findings, which are relevant for the above mentioned guiding aspects, are summarized and discussed. The application of the design concept is exemplified in a natural trail path containing short span bridges in the Kouvola region in southern Finland.Description
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active bending, structural membrane, Minimal surfaces, experimental structure, geometric non-linearity, FEM, large deformations
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Fink, G, Ruan, G & Filz, G H 2019, Sustainable design concepts for short span, timber-only structures . in Form and Force : Proceedings of the Annual Symposium of the International Association for Shell and Spatial Structures . Proceedings of the IASS Annual Symposia, vol. 2019, International Association for Shell and Spatial Structures (IASS), Annual Symposium of the International Association for Shell and Spatial Structures, Barcelona, Spain, 07/10/2019 .
