With the trend towards sustainable building design, timber-concrete composite floor systems attract great interest among building designers and developers as an alternative to the profiled steel-concrete deck that are commonly used in commercial construction. The proposed 2-layer composite floor deck consists of a profiled nail laminated timber...
Currently the massive timber shear walls are mainly made from Cross Laminated Timber (CLT), which possesses a high in-plane shear strength and rigidity. But only part of its elements (mainly the vertically aligned laminae) are engaged in carrying the vertical load and that could be a limitation when designing taller timber structures or wherever higher...
