Interest in timber structures is growing internationally. This series of Timber Engineering WoodSolutions Campus courses intends to upskill engineers in design of buildings constructed using timber. The courses provide a fundamental background in timber engineering and then focus on the engineering design of three structural systems – timber-frame, mass-timber, and post and beam. The course is suitable for structural engineers and designers. It covers a range of topics; from wood products to lateral stability systems. This is a relatively brief series of courses and can therefore only cover a broad overview of timber engineering. In order to facilitate follow-up learning, the presenters provide references throughout the course to further sources of information and design details.
Presenters Jon Shanks and Geoff Boughton from TimberED Services developed and delivered a series of six Timber Engineering webinars with Timber Insight in mid 2020. The content for these Campus courses is based on those recorded webinars. Each session in the course uses a combination of presentation slides and embedded video clips showing experiments and props to explain key concepts. Jon and Geoff’s delivery of the content is shown throughout in a thumbnail added into the videos to provide context, discussion, and additional explanation and information using extra props.
By completing this series of courses, engineers and design professionals will be equipped with an understanding of the key considerations for timber engineering design and be well-placed to identify topics they need to research further to continue to grow their skills in timber engineering.
The six-part series of courses consists of:
Course 1 - Wood products, timber properties, and grading
Topic 1: Wood fibre properties and the impact of moisture
Topic 2: Wood products
Topic 3: Grading and specification
Course 2 - Engineering design to AS1720.1 and alternative methods
Topic 1 - AS 1720.1 Capacity factor and k factors
Topic 2 - Design of tension and compression members
Topic 3 - Strength of bending members
Topic 4 - Deflection of bending members
Topic 5 - Floor dynamics
Topic 6 - Design of cross-laminated timber
Course 3 - Whole of building performance
Topic 1 - Performance requirements
Topic 2 - Vertical load paths and building movement
Topic 3 - Lateral load paths
Topic 4 - Diaphragms
Topic 5 - Interfaces
Course 4 - System focus 1 – Timber-framed construction
Topic 1 - Framing principles & strategies
Topic 2 - Floor design
Topic 3 - Stud design
Topic 4 - Lateral systems
Course 5 - System focus 2 – Cross-laminated timber (CLT) and other mass-timber construction
Topic 1 - Principles of mass-timber
Topic 2 - Design strategies
Topic 3 - Floor design
Topic 4 - Wall design
Topic 5 - Lateral systems
Course 6 - System focus 3 – Post & beam and hybrid construction
Topic 1 - Principles of post & beam construction
Topic 2 - Design strategies
Topic 3 - Floor design
Topic 4 - Column design and interfaces
Topic 5 - Lateral systems