Fire safety engineering of high rise timber buildings

During this MSc thesis it has been carried out an extensive literature review on fire safety engineering, on timber behaviour on fire and on fire safety regulations in different countries. A preliminary design for a high rise cross laminated timber building (CLT) has been carried out in order to obtain a minimum thickness of the structural...

Cellular beam-columns in portal frame structures

Theoretical and numerical research into the application of cellular beam-column members in portal frame structures. Two failure mechanisms requiring additional research if cellular beams are to be applied as column members, have been investigated: 1) member flexural buckling, and 2) local web-post buckling. The flexural buckling behaviour of...