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Tomá? ?ajdlík, Karel ?uhajda and David Pru?a
The combustibility of natural wood presents a negative impact for using this material in buildings. Timber elements can be cladded with boards made of non-combustible materials. This study represents a group of options for increasing the resistance of ti...
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Xingxing Liu, Weidong Lu, Kaifeng Liu, Fengyan Xu, Zhibin Ling and Kong Yue
This paper comprehensively investigates the moment-rotation relationship of straight mortise-tenon joints commonly used in Chinese antique timber buildings, focusing on analyzing the local compression mechanism at the tenon end-mortise and the tenon neck...
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Annie Gosselin, Yan Cimon, Nadia Lehoux and Pierre Blanchet
The use of timber as structural building material is growing and a greater number of firms are looking to enter this raising market. Erecting a complex timber building usually involves combining the work of architects, structural engineers, builders, sup...
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Annie Gosselin, Pierre Blanchet, Nadia Lehoux and Yan Cimon
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Annie Gosselin, Pierre Blanchet, Nadia Lehoux and Yan Cimon
Timber structures in construction have become more popular in recent years. Nevertheless, besides the complexity of designing, contracting and building these structures, a barrier to their market growth is the complexity of their supply chain relationshi...
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Peng Chang, Qiuge Feng, Nannan Wu and Na Yang
In order to study the mechanical performance and friction slip mechanism of the interface of a composite timber column under inclined deformation, the unilateral contact mechanical model of an ancient composite timber column under inclined deformation is...
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Ariya Eini, Lina Zhou and Chun Ni
Light-frame wood structures are the most common type of construction for residential and low-rise buildings in North America. The 2015 edition of the National Building Code of Canada has increased the height limit for light-frame wood construction from 4...
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Sam W. Wood, Timothy J. Wardlaw, Elizabeth C. Pryde and Susan C. Baker
Fire and timber harvesting can diminish the extent of older forests in the near term. The amount and configuration of mature and regenerating forest in the landscape (landscape structure) influences habitat suitability for mature-forest-associated specie...
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Roger Birchmore, Andy Pivac and Robert Tait
New Zealand houses are known for producing sub-optimal internal thermal conditions and unacceptably high internal moisture levels. These contribute to poor levels of health, mould and can coincide with the decay of structural timber frames. A proposed so...
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Alvaro Magdaleno, Cesar Pelaez, Alvaro Iglesias-Pordomingo and Antolin Lorenzana
Tuned Mass Dampers are devices which can be assimilated to single-degree-of-freedom systems with a certain amount of moving mass, a natural frequency and a damping ratio intended to be installed on lively structures to reduce the contribution of a certai...
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Snje?ana Marku?ic, Davor Stanko, Davorin Penava, Domagoj Trajber and Radmila ?alic
Trako?can Castle, built on a rocky peak in the late 13th century, is a cultural heritage site protected as a historical entity by the Republic of Croatia. The Castle is constructed as a highly irregular masonry structure with timber or shallow masonry ar...
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Guillermo Martínez Pastur,Rosina Soler,María V. Lencinas,Juan M. Cellini,Pablo L. Peri
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Aim of the study: To analyse the effectiveness of thinning on tree growth, forest structure and microclimatic variables along seven years after cuttings in a secondary Nothofagus antarctica forest in Southern Patagonia.Area of study: Five hectares of hom...
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Shuai Guo, Tong Shen, Li Li, Huangxing Hu, Jicheng Zhang and Zhiwen Lu
Timber has been commonly used in the field of civil engineering, and the health condition of timber is of great significance for the whole structure in practical scenarios. However, due to mechanical load and environmental impact, timber-based constructi...
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Matthew B. Russell, Stephanie R. Patton, David C. Wilson, Grant M. Domke and Katie L. Frerker
The amount of biomass stored in forest ecosystems is a result of past natural disturbances, forest management activities, and current structure and composition such as age class distributions. Although natural disturbances are projected to increase in th...
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Derya Mumcu Küçüker,Emin Zeki Baskent
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Aim of study: Exploring the potential effects of various forest management strategies on the ability of forest ecosystems to sequester carbon and produce water has become of great concern among forest researchers. The main purpose of this study is to eva...
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María De los Ángeles Soriano-Luna, Gregorio Ángeles-Pérez, Mario Guevara, Richard Birdsey, Yude Pan, Humberto Vaquera-Huerta, José René Valdez-Lazalde, Kristofer D. Johnson and Rodrigo Vargas
The proper estimation of above-ground biomass (AGB) stocks of managed forests is a prerequisite to quantifying their role in climate change mitigation. The aim of this study was to analyze the spatial variability of AGB and its uncertainty between active...
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J. Ruiz-Mirazo,J. L. Gonzalez-Rebollar
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Aim of study: In the Mediterranean, low timber-production forests are frequently thinned to promote biodiversity and reduce wildfire risk, but few studies in the region have addressed such goals. The aim of this research was to compare six thinning regim...
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Philip Burton,Bill Bourgeois,Dan George,Kathie Swift,Doug Lewis,Todd Redding et al.,Dan Orcherton,Gina Thomas,R. Allan Powelson,Kelly Osbourne,Robert Parisotto,Brad Hawkes,Rene Alfaro,Jodi Axelson,Darin W. Brooks,Craig DeLong,Bruce Rogers,Pat Teti,Alan Vyse,Harold Armieder,Michaela Waterhouse,Patrick Daigle,Pierre Iachetti,Christian St Pierre,Alistair McCrone,Kathy Martin,Mark Drever,Andrea R. Norris,R. Scott McNay,Randy Sulyma,Joan Voller,Viktor Brumovsky,Don G. Morgan,Andrew Fall,Rob M. McCann
Outbreaks of mountain pine beetle are evaluated as a generic disturbance agent, and comparisons are made with other forest disturbances such as wildfire, windthrow, and logging. A useful basis for comparison is the degree of disruption to the overstorey,...
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João Parracha, Manuel Pereira, António Maurício, Paulina Faria, Daniel F. Lima, Marina Tenório and Lina Nunes
The present study aims at evaluating the impact of anobiid damage on pine timber elements. Anobiid attack produces a diffuse damage of the elements with a set of tunnels in random directions and sizes, thus confusing quantification. Therefore, a method w...
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Kálmán Koris,István Bódi
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Buckling analysis of arches is an important issue of the design of timber structures containing such structural elements. In the article an analytical and an approximate solution is proposed for lateral torsional buckling analysis of truss-braced timber ...
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