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Modelling Workflow for Segmented Timber Shells using Wood-wood Connections

Yves Weinand, Julien Gamerro, Petras Vestartas, Nicolas Henry Pierre Louis Rogeau

This paper presents a modelling method based on planarization for double-curved segmented timber shell made from quad polygons and assembled by wood-wood connections. The inspiration is taken from timber dome structures, where solid timber walls were built ...

Springer2019

Performance Assessment of Double-Layered Timber Plate Shells using Alternative Structural Systems

Yves Weinand, Anh Chi Nguyen, Petras Vestartas, Bertrand Mathieu C Himmer

With recent advances in digital fabrication, innovative wood-wood connections inspired by ancient timber joining techniques have recently been applied to various free-form timber plate structures. This paper focuses on the recently developed double-layered ...

International Centre for Numerical Methods in Engineering (CIMNE)2019

Design framework for the structural analysis of free-form timber plate structures using wood-wood connections

Yves Weinand, Anh Chi Nguyen, Petras Vestartas

Geometrically complex timber plate structures using wood-wood connections are increasingly designed thanks to digital fabrication. Whereas their fabrication has been automated using computer-aided design programming, research focused on the development of ...

2019

Segmented Spiral Using Inter-Connected Timber Elements

Yves Weinand, Aryan Rezaei Rad, Petras Vestartas, Martin Thomas Nakad, Loïc Henri Pelletier

This paper describes the construction process of a scenographic structure - five meters high spiral. It consists of following parts: CAD modeling work-flow, prototyping and FEM structural calculation, assembly and on-site loading test. The structure was co ...

INT CENTER NUMERICAL METHODS ENGINEERING2019

Théâtre de Vidy-Lausanne

Yves Weinand

2018

Mechanical Characterization of Timber Structural Elements Using Integral Mechanical Attachments

Yves Weinand, Julien Gamerro, Ingebrigt Ambroise Valderhaug Lemaître

Automation is increasingly present in the construction industry, whether at the design, manufacturing or assembly stage. Thanks to new technologies, such as robotics, new ways of designing structural elements can be imagined and implemented. Complex method ...

EPFL2018

Experimental investigation of the influence of integral mechanical attachments on structural behaviour of timber folded surface structures

Yves Weinand, Christopher Werner Matthias Robeller, Andrea Stitic

Structural behaviour of timber folded surface systems greatly depends on the connections ability to transfer the occurring forces between the adjacent elements and finally to the supports. This paper focuses on multiple tab-and-slot joints (MTSJ), where di ...

2018

Rotational mechanical behaviour of wood-wood connections with application to double-layered folded timber-plate structure

Yves Weinand, Christopher Werner Matthias Robeller, Julien Gamerro

This paper is focused on the structural design of an innovative wood-wood connection designed for a full-scale double-layered timber folded-plate structure: the new Vidy theatre pavilion (Lausanne, Switzerland). Investigations into the potential of these n ...

2018

Development of a Spring Model for the Structural Analysis of a Double-Layered Timber Plate Structure with Through-Tenon Joints

Yves Weinand, Anh Chi Nguyen

Timber plate structures with integral mechanical attachments have been successfully built in the last decades. Previous research has highlighted the influence of these connections in the global behavior of the structures. Double-layered plate shells are on ...

World Conference of Timber Engineering2018

Shear loaded friction-welded crosswise arranged timber boards

Till Vallée, Yves Weinand, Benjamin Hahn

Friction welding of wood is a bonding technology that can be used for joining timber elements, and in which the adhesive is formed from thermally modified cell wall material within the substrate during the welding process. In this paper, this principle is ...

2017

Double-layered timber plate shell. International Journal of Space Structures

Yves Weinand, Mark Pauly, Christopher Werner Matthias Robeller, Mina Konakovic Lukovic, Mira Dedijer

This article presents a new lightweight construction system for doubly curved shells made from timber plates, inspired by the masonry vaults of Eladio Dieste. The system was developed for a specific case-study project, and general applications to other fre ...

2017

Théâtre Vidy Lausanne - A Double-Layered Timber Folded Plate Structure

Yves Weinand, Christopher Werner Matthias Robeller, Julien Gamerro

This article describes the first full-scale realization of a double-layered, folded plate structure (DLFP), for a new hall for the Théâtre Vidy Lausanne. (Fig. 1). Enabled by a novel double-tenon connection technology, the shape of the components simultane ...

2017

Multiple Tab-and-Slot Joint : Improvement of the Rotational Stiffness for the Connection of Thin Structural Wood Panels

Yves Weinand, Stéphane Nicolas Roche, Julien Gamerro

Researchers in Asia have focused on analyzing the rotational performance of traditional connections based on embedment. The Nuki through-joint has inspired work at the laboratory of wood construction (IBOIS), Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, to im ...

World Conference on Timber Engineering2016

A 3D Cutting Method for Integral 1DOF Multiple-Tab-and-Slot Joints for Timber Plates, using 5-axis CNC Cutting Technology

Yves Weinand, Christopher Werner Matthias Robeller

Integral Mechanical Attachment (IMA) uses features in the form of components for their connection. In addition to the transfer of forces, locator features are used as integral assembly guides. Prismatic, single-degree-of-freedom (1DOF) joints only allow fo ...

2016

Integrale Verbindungen für Faltwerke aus Holzwerkstoffplatten

Yves Weinand, Christopher Werner Matthias Robeller

Über einen langen Zeitraum wurden im Zimmererhandwerk Holzverbindungen mit Handwerkzeugen wie Beilen, Sägen und Stemmeisen hergestellt. Diese traditionellen Verbindungen nutzten die Form der Bauteile, um Kräfte zu übertragen. Das Konzept wird auch als inte ...

2016

Théâtre Vidy Lausanne - Ein zweischichtiges gefaltetes Flächentragwerk aus Brettsperrholz

Yves Weinand, Christopher Werner Matthias Robeller, Julien Gamerro, Pierre-Olivier Paul Bertrand Coanon

Dieser Artikel beschreibt die erste vollmasstäbliche Umsetzung eines zweischichtigen, gefalteten Flächentragwerkes aus Brettsperrholzplatten, für das Projekt Théâtre Vidy Lausanne. Durch eine neuartige Doppelzapfen-Verbindungstechnik dient die Form der Bau ...

Swiss Wood Innovation Network S-WIN2016

Shear Resistance and Failure Modes of Edgewise Multiple Tab-and-Slot Joint (MTSJ) Connection with Dovetail Design for Thin LVL spruce plywood Kerto-Q Panels

Yves Weinand, Stéphane Nicolas Roche, Mira Dedijer

The objective of this study is to experimentally analyse effects of geometry variations of Multiple Tab and Slot Joint (MTSJ) connection with dovetail design on shear mechanical behaviour. Direct shear test was performed on angular (phi=90°) MTSJ connectio ...

2016

Discrete variational Lie group formulation of geometrically exact beams dynamics

Tudor Ratiu, François Gay-Balmaz, Yves Weinand, François Marie Alain Demoures

The goal of this paper is to derive a structure preserving integrator for geometrically exact beam dynamics, by using a Lie group variational integrator. Both spatial and temporal discretization are implemented in a geometry preserving manner. The resultin ...

Springer2015

Rotational Stiffness at Ridges of Timber Folded-plate Structures

Yves Weinand, Stéphane Nicolas Roche, Geoffroy Mattoni

2015

Interlocking Folded Plate – Integral Mechanical Attachment for Structural Wood Panels

Yves Weinand, Christopher Werner Matthias Robeller

Automatic joinery has become a common technique for the jointing of beams in timber framing and roofing. It has revived traditional, integral joints such as mortise and tenon connections. Similarly, but only recently, the automatic fabrication of tradition ...

2015

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