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Design of Steel Portal Frame Buildings for Fire Safety [PDF]
, 2009 This paper describes a study into the fire behaviour of steel portal frame buildings at elevated temperatures using the finite element programme SAFIR.
Moss, P.J. +3 more
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Budownictwo i Architektura, 2013 The paper analyses the influence of the rotational flexibility of beam-column connection on the roof plane rigidity of the longitudinally braced frame-purlin cover of the solid wall hall. The cover is adapted to obtain thermal energy from solar radiation.
Karolina Brzezińska +1 more
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Seventeenth and eighteenth century timber roof structures in Scotland : design, pathologies and conservation [PDF]
, 2016 17C and 18C Scottish built heritage has not been sufficiently researched, despite its importance in both quality and quantity. Most scholars tend to investigate the external architectural composition of these buildings rather than their overall ...
Gonzalez-Longo, C., Serafini, A.
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Rotational restraint of cold-formed Z-purlins given by the trapezoidal sheeting with additional stiffening ribs [PDF]
Archives of Civil EngineeringThe Eurocode 3-1-3 [1] provisions, according to which the rotational restraint of a cold-formed Z-purlin given by the sheeting has to be determined, set out guidelines for the first-generation trapezoidal sheets only in strictly defined cases, and for ...
Michał Gajdzicki
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Archives of Civil Engineering, 2019 The most important challenges in the construction field is to do the experimentation of the designing at real time. It leads to the wastage of the materials and time consuming process.
Janani S., Thenmozhi R., Jayagopal L.S.
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A Study of Western Influence on Timber Supply and Carpentry in South China in the Early 20th Century
Journal of Asian Architecture and Building Engineering, 2017 The formation of the Treaty Ports after the Opium Wars saw the introduction of the ideas of the Industrial Revolution to Imperial China. The Treaty Ports acted as the intersection of Chinese and Western cultures, playing a crucial role in introducing ...
Yiting Pan, James W. P. Campbell
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Journal of Wood Science, 2022 Dou-gong is an essential part of traditional timber buildings in East Asia, having a decoration function and a load transfer function. The San-dou component, which is vulnerable to the lateral push force of the Gong, Fang, and purlin, is a critical ...
Chengwen Zhang +4 more
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Field tests of a timber queen-post truss and numerical analysis [PDF]
, 2008 In-situ cyclic tests on an existing traditional timber truss were performed. The main goal of the tests was to evaluate the overall behavior of the timber truss under symmetric and non-symmetric loading. Moreover, the influence of the location of point
Branco, Jorge M. +3 more
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Sustainability Improvement in the Design of Lightweight Roofs: A New Prototype of Hybrid Steel and Wood Purlins [PDF]
, 2019 A new structural typology of a hybrid purlin, made of type C cold steel and rectangular laminated wood (SWP), is presented in this paper. As a result, improvements on the most commonly used steel purlins are achieved, by substituting some of the steel ...
Cuadrado Rojo, Jesús +3 more
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Applied SciencesThe photovoltaic industry plays a critical role in promoting global sustainability. Enhancing the reliability of photovoltaic structures is essential for achieving sustainable development.
Deli Zhang +3 more
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