Special Assignment of Wooden StructuresLaajuus (2 cr)

Objective

Object of the course:
The knowledge and skills you get on this course you will need in the future in order to be able to design load-bearing timber structures for demanding grade buildings.
Course competences:
- Mathematic and Natural science competence
- Technological competence
The learning objectives of the course:
You can design load-bearing timber structures of the demanding grade in an ultimate-limit and service-limit state. You can also design the stiffening of frame. You can design fireproofing for load-bearing structures.
These are also the basic tasks of the course.

Content

- frame systems for wooden apartment buildings
- dimensioning of CLT structures
- joints
- stability and stiffening of the frame parts of a wooden apartment building
- humidity and drying management

Qualifications

TRAP1580 Wooden Structures 1

Assessment criteria, satisfactory (1)

Passable (1): The student recognizes all of the learning objectives, understands the meaning of them and is able to perform the basic tasks described in the learning objectives of the course.

Satisfying (2): In addition to previous skills, the student can systematically describe the issues of the course.

Assessment criteria, good (3)

Good (3): In addition to previous skills, the student can describe the influences of various solutions and can make reasoned choices between alternatives.

Laudable (4): In addition to previous skills, the student can apply the learned issues independently and is able to evaluate done solutions.

Assessment criteria, excellent (5)

Excellent ( 5 ): In addition to previous skills, the student shows deep knowledge of course contents as well as ability to parse and wider analyze the influences of solutions.

Materials

- lesson notes
- material shared on the learning platform
- training material in the design of demanding wooden structures

Further information

Qualifications:
The course is part of studies that belong to qualifications of civil engineer (Ministry of the Environment guidelines on the difficulty classes of design tasks YM1/601/2015).

The studies follow guidelines of curriculum performed in cooperation with Universities of applied sciences and construction industry in 2017.

Execution methods

- lectures and exercises
- learning tasks
- course assignment