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Sequentiality
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Mandatory sequentiality bound on the level of programme components
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Following programme components must have been included in your study programme in a previous education period
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Timber (4387)
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| Degree programme | | Study hours | Credits | P2 SBU | P2 SP | 2nd Chance Exam1 | Tolerance2 | Final grade3 | |
 | Master of Civil Engineering Technology | Optional | 81 | 3,0 | 81 | 3,0 | Yes | Yes | Numerical |  |
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| EC3 - The holder of the degree can design, technically engineer and calculate complex buildings, civil-technical constructions and infrastructural works (including their foundations) using innovative methods. | | | - DC
| DC-M5 - can analyze problems, logically structure and interpret them. | | | | - BC
| The student can indetify within a stability project the application of the learned methods. | | | - DC
| DC-M6 - can select methods and make calculated choices to solve problems or design solutions. | | | | - BC
| The student is able to apply the chosen method on the basis of the identified problem and the possible solution. | | | - DC
| DC-M7 - can use selected methods and tools to implement solutions and designs. | | | | - BC
| The student is to able implement design methods (e.g build een Excel calculation sheet or similar) and critically reflect on the results obtained by means of design tools (e.g. use of software available in the market). |
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| | EC = learning outcomes DC = partial outcomes BC = evaluation criteria |
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In this course, the design of timber structures using advanced methods and new engineered timber products will be handled. Based on the learned principles and methods from mechanical of materials, structures and design of timber structures (Dimensioneren van hout), the student will take a step further allowing him to design competitive and advanced solutions using timber as structural material. This includes the design, calculation, control and implementation aspects covering the following:
Design of two-material beams (Equivalent Transformed CS and Gamma-method)
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- Timber-Timber: Glued thin webbed and flanged beams
- Timber-Timber: Mechanically joined beams
- Timber-concrete: Mechanically joined beams
- Advanced analysis of connections
- Moment connections
- Glued-in (Bonded-in) rods connections
- Design of cross-laminated timber constructions
- Introduction to the fire design of timber structures
- Reduction cross-section method
- Design of lightweight timber frame constructions
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blended projectonderwijs ✔
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Small group session ✔
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Group work ✔
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Homework ✔
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Period 2 Credits 3,00
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| Written evaluaton during teaching periode | 100 % |
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Second examination period
| Evaluation second examination opportunity different from first examination opprt | |
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| Explanation (English) | The students have the opportunity to improve the realized assignments during the semester. |
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Relationship with work field
The students expand their structural design competences on solutions using engineered wood products, including the combination with other materials in the form of composite. Accordingly, the course content broadens the students' know-how on timber engineering, with particular emphasis on the structural design, and therefore, directed to the daily tasks of structural engineers in design offices.
Moreover, an extra lecture activity is organized on an open topic covering the use of wood as a construction material. Alternatively, an activity, promoting contact with the field through a study visit, may be organized.
The following are possible target activities complementary to the main course content:
*Guest lecture given by an expert on the field of the timber engineering with an open topic around the used of wood in the construction sector (e.g. project, execution of timber structures, fire design and safety of timber structures, durability, etc );
*Visit to a engineered wood product factory;
*Visit to a timber construction company;
*Visit to a construction site where the main structural system incorporates engineered wood products.
Relationship with research
The Construction Engineering Research Group (CERG) of the UHasselt develops important research activities dealing with the development and implementation of integrated structural solutions that make an efficient use of the construction materials. Wood is a material recovering its important position in the construction sector due to the significant advances in the development and production of new engineered wood construction products, and its key role to support this industry to tackle the urgent needs for a change towards a greener and more resource efficient industry.
The development of innovative structural solutions making an efficient use of wood is a core research domain for CERG. The performed research activities covering experimental testing, FEM numerical simulations and translation to practical design rules, both at national and international level, have therefore an high added value to the educational program.
Sustainability
This course covers the design of structural solutions implementing engineered wood products. Wood is known to be a sustainable material. Wood engineered products are construction materials with an unique characteristic: a carbon sink. Designing performant structural solutions, where wood engineered products can have an significant structural role, is therefore, a step towards a more sustainable construction sector. Moreover, though wood is a renewable resource, where the responsible management of the forest makes it inexhaustible, the exponential growth on the demand for wood in the construction sector, requires its efficient use. Designing structural solutions which can optimize the application of wood engineered products is the core scope of this course.
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| Exchange Programme Engineering Technology | Optional | 81 | 3,0 | 81 | 3,0 | Yes | Yes | Numerical | |
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In this course, the design of timber structures using advanced methods and new engineered timber products will be handled. Based on the learned principles and methods from mechanical of materials, structures and design of timber structures (Dimensioneren van hout), the student will take a step further allowing him to design competitive and advanced solutions using timber as structural material. This includes the design, calculation, control and implementation aspects covering the following:
Design of two-material beams (Equivalent Transformed CS and Gamma-method)
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- Timber-Timber: Glued thin webbed and flanged beams
- Timber-Timber: Mechanically joined beams
- Timber-concrete: Mechanically joined beams
- Advanced analysis of connections
- Moment connections
- Glued-in (Bonded-in) rods connections
- Design of cross-laminated timber constructions
- Introduction to the fire design of timber structures
- Reduction cross-section method
- Design of lightweight timber frame constructions
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blended projectonderwijs ✔
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Small group session ✔
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Group work ✔
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Homework ✔
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Period 2 Credits 3,00
| Evaluation method | |
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| Written evaluaton during teaching periode | 100 % |
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Second examination period
| Evaluation second examination opportunity different from first examination opprt | |
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| Explanation (English) | The students have the opportunity to improve the realized assignments during the semester. |
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| Remarks |
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Relationship with work field
The students expand their structural design competences on solutions using engineered wood products, including the combination with other materials in the form of composite. Accordingly, the course content broadens the students' know-how on timber engineering, with particular emphasis on the structural design, and therefore, directed to the daily tasks of structural engineers in design offices.
Moreover, an extra lecture activity is organized on an open topic covering the use of wood as a construction material. Alternatively, an activity, promoting contact with the field through a study visit, may be organized.
The following are possible target activities complementary to the main course content:
*Guest lecture given by an expert on the field of the timber engineering with an open topic around the used of wood in the construction sector (e.g. project, execution of timber structures, fire design and safety of timber structures, durability, etc );
*Visit to a engineered wood product factory;
*Visit to a timber construction company;
*Visit to a construction site where the main structural system incorporates engineered wood products.
Relationship with research
The Construction Engineering Research Group (CERG) of the UHasselt develops important research activities dealing with the development and implementation of integrated structural solutions that make an efficient use of the construction materials. Wood is a material recovering its important position in the construction sector due to the significant advances in the development and production of new engineered wood construction products, and its key role to support this industry to tackle the urgent needs for a change towards a greener and more resource efficient industry.
The development of innovative structural solutions making an efficient use of wood is a core research domain for CERG. The performed research activities covering experimental testing, FEM numerical simulations and translation to practical design rules, both at national and international level, have therefore an high added value to the educational program.
Sustainability
This course covers the design of structural solutions implementing engineered wood products. Wood is known to be a sustainable material. Wood engineered products are construction materials with an unique characteristic: a carbon sink. Designing performant structural solutions, where wood engineered products can have an significant structural role, is therefore, a step towards a more sustainable construction sector. Moreover, though wood is a renewable resource, where the responsible management of the forest makes it inexhaustible, the exponential growth on the demand for wood in the construction sector, requires its efficient use. Designing structural solutions which can optimize the application of wood engineered products is the core scope of this course.
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1 Education, Examination and Legal Position Regulations art.12.2, section 2. |
| 2 Education, Examination and Legal Position Regulations art.16.9, section 2. |
3 Education, Examination and Legal Position Regulations art.15.1, section 3.
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| Legend |
| SBU : course load | SP : ECTS | N : Dutch | E : English |
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