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Dynamic Characterization and Vibration Analysis of a Four-Story Mass Timber Building [PDF]
Frontiers in Built Environment, 2019 Mass timber construction has been gaining momentum in multi-story residential and commercial construction sectors in North America. As taller mass timber buildings are being planned and constructed, in-situ dynamic tests of this type of construction can ...
Ignace Mugabo +3 more
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Comparative LCAs of Conventional and Mass Timber Buildings in Regions With Potential for Mass Timber Penetration [PDF]
Sustainability, 2021 Manufacturing of building materials and construction of buildings make up 11% of the global greenhouse gas emission by sector. Mass timber construction has the potential to reduce greenhouse gas emissions by moving wood into buildings with designs that have traditionally been dominated by steel and concrete.
Hongmei Gu +2 more
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Wind-induced vibration serviceability of ten multi-storey timber buildings [PDF]
Open Research EuropeMulti-storey timber buildings are prone to wind-induced vibrations, especially due to their lightweight nature, which can lead to occupant discomfort. Vibration serviceability may be a critical design criterion for such structures.
Blaž Kurent, Boštjan Brank
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Cleaner Engineering and Technology, 2020 Timber has been considered as a promising building material because of its structural rigidity, environmental sustainability, and renewability nature. In Europe and Australia, timber materials have been used for many different types of construction such ...
Shafayet Ahmed, Ingrid Arocho
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Sustainable Mass Timber Structures—Selected Issues in the Structural Shaping of Tall Buildings
Applied SciencesThe subject of this article is tall buildings with a load-bearing layout made of mass timber, erected between 2009 and 2025. The aim of the study is to introduce a typology and to systematise and synthesise knowledge concerning the spatial and material ...
Hanna Michalak, Karolina Michalak
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Data and bills of materials for buildings designed for mass timber, structural steel, and reinforced concrete based on the 2021 international building code provisions [PDF]
Data in BriefThis article presents and describes a dataset for the bills of materials for the buildings constructed with mass timber (MT), structural steel (SS), and reinforced concrete (RC), which are generated using Athena's Impact Estimator for Buildings (IE4B ...
Vaibhav Kumar +4 more
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An innovative connection system for platform-type mass timber buildings
Resilient Cities and StructuresPlatform-style construction is a widely recognized and well-established approach among engineers and developers for multi-story mass timber buildings.
Rajnil Lal +2 more
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Buildings, 2021 The uptake of buildings employing cross-laminated timber (CLT) assemblies and designed to Passivhaus standard has accelerated internationally over the past two decades due to several factors including responses to the climate crisis by decarbonising the ...
Marcus Strang +3 more
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Case Studies in Construction Materials, 2021 Timber usage in the Australian construction industry has significantly increased due to its strength, aesthetic properties and extended allowances recently introduced in building codes.
Amitha Jayalath +4 more
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Protecting wood infrastructure and mass timber buildings [PDF]
Wood Material Science & Engineering, 2020 Traditionally, many elements of our infrastructure, such as electric power grits, railway networks, guardrails, ports, piles, and bridges – are made of wood.
Brischke, Christian, Gobakken, Lone Ross
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