Wooden Materials and Joints for Sustainable Timber Structures
A special issue of Sustainability (ISSN 2071-1050). This special issue belongs to the section "Sustainable Materials".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (21 March 2022) | Viewed by 16561
Special Issue Editors
Interests: sustainable structural design; timber materials and joints; probability assessment of structures
Interests: diagnostics of timber structures; timber materials; experimental testing
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Special Issue Information
Dear colleagues,
Wood and timber structures have accompanied humankind practically throughout its entire existence. Wood is a natural renewable material with excellent physical and mechanical properties. It is relatively available all over the world and its mining, processing, construction, and also removal require relatively little energy. Today, advanced societies around the world are addressing the issue of sustainable development, securing the raw material base for the construction industry, while limiting the use of non-renewable natural resources with a high "carbon footprint". This trend of "sustainable development" is fully met by increasing the share of wood and wood-based materials in construction, both in the construction of multi-story buildings for housing, culture and sports, and for transport structures (road bridges and especially footbridges). In connection with higher demands on the strength, rigidity, and durability of building materials in current buildings, these demands are also growing on wood-based materials and its joints. There is also an urgent issue of the resistance of these elements and joints in buildings exposed to the extraordinary effects of loading (impact, fire, earthquake, etc.).
The purpose of this Special Issue is to present wood and wood-based materials, their properties, and the possibility of incorporation into wooden and hybrid structures. Related to this is the issue of joints of structural elements made of these materials, as well as new approaches to the design of these structures in the context of sustainable development.
Prof. Dr. Antonín Lokaj
Dr. Kristýna Vavrušová
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- Sustainable wood-based materials
- Sustainable timber structures
- Modern joints in timber structures
- Passive houses
- Sports and cultural halls
- Multi-story houses
- Bridges
- Pedestrian-bridges
- Impact load
- Wood material properties
