Hybrid Timber for Large-Grid Mixed-Use Buildings 2024 Fall

Hybrid Timber for Large-Grid Mixed-Use Buildings (this is not a self-paced course)

November 18 – 29, 2024

The course pushes the boundaries of conventional heavy timber and mass timber structures by providing hybrid timber design strategies for their optimum seismic performance.

The primary learning and competency outcome are the following:

• Perform structural analysis and design of hybrid timber multi-story buildings made up of heavy timber or mass timber elements combined with other non-wood components, with particular reference to their seismic design
• Be able to account for serviceability design requirements based on the different physical and mechanical properties of materials
• Gain knowledge about ductility classes for joints and connections, non-dissipative connections, steel-type-fuse elements and pre-requisites for achieving energy dissipation capabilities and reparability of the hybrid timber-based structural system
• Become familiar with input design parameters for finite-element modelling and analysis of such structures