Systems of forces and couples, resultants, equilibrium. Trusses, frames and beams, reactions, shear forces, bending moments. Centroids, centres of gravity, distributed forces, moments of inertia. Friction, limiting equilibrium, screws, belts.
Advanced design of wood buildings: calculation of gravity and lateral loads, lateral design principles, load-resisting systems for multi-storey wood buildings. Design of multi-storey light-framed wood buildings, mass timber buildings. Design of connection systems. Hybrid timber buildings. Innovative structural systems for timber buildings.
Davenport wind loading chain, wind climate, atmospheric boundary layer and turbulence, wind risk and statistics, bluff body aerodynamics, wind loads and structural responses, aeroelastic effects, building code approaches to estimate design wind loads, wind energy and sustainability, and introduction to wind tunnel tests and computational fluid dynamics.
