Curved Folded Plate Timber Structures

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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 ...

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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 ...

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 ...

Adaptive joints are structural joints made of materials with enhanced transduction properties that can vary their stiffness via solid-state actuation (e.g. thermal, mechanical). In this work, stiffness tuning is used to switch the joint between a ‘locked’ ...

Friction welding of wood is a fast and adhesive-free bonding technology for the production of timber joints with good mechanical characteristics making this type of connection interesting for applications in timber construction. However, the moisture stabi ...

Curved Folded Plate Timber Structures

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

Restoration of ancient Chinese opera spiral wooden domes, accounts of field practice

Form follows availability - Designing structures through reuse

Form follows availability – Designing structures through reuse

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

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

A vibration control strategy using variable stiffness joints

Influence of surface shapes on the mechanical behaviour of friction welded wood bonds