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Presentations

Special session on Prospects and challenges in future timber engineering research

• Keynote Lecture by David Rosowsky
• Keynote Lecture by Motoi Yasumura
• Keynote Lecture by Heinrich Kreuzinger
• Keynote Lecture by Pierre Quenneville
• Keynote Lecture by Frank Lam

Session on the assessment of failures and malfunctions

• Design of safe timber structures - How can we learn from structural failures? - E. Frühwald
• Statistics of damages to timber structures in Germany - M. Frese
• Proposal for a failure assessment template - T. Toratti
• A scheme for the evaluation of experience about the performance of timber structures - G. Fink (failure reporting template & software)

Session on the ductility in timber connections

• General notes on ductility in timber structures - A. Jorissen
• Quantifying ductility in timber structures - K. A. Malo
• Ductility requirements for moment connections in statically indeterminate timber structures - A. Leijten
• Consideration of plasticity within the design of timber structures due to connection ductility - F. Brühl
• Elastic and ductile design of multi-storey crosslam massive wooden buildings under seismic actions - M. Fragiacomo
• Failure mechanisms of dowel-type fastener connections perpendicular-to-grain -  D. Schoenmakers
• Ductility of timber-concrete connection -  A. Dias
• Ductility aspects of reinforced and non-reinforced timber joints - H.-J. Blaβ

Session on moisture induced stresses

• On the consideration of moisture induced stresses in timber structural design -  J. Köhler
• NMR imaging study and multi-Fickian numerical simulation of moisture transfer in Norway spruce samples -  S. Fortino
• A proposal to account for environmental effects in design of timber-concrete composite beams - J. Schaenzlin
• Moisture-induced stresses perpendicular to grain in timber sections exposed to European climates - T. Toratti
• Predicting moisture state of timber members in continuously varying climate - S. Svensson

Session on Robustness of timber structures

• Framework for robustness assessment of timber structures - J. D. Sørensen
• System Reliability of timber structures with ductile behaviour - P.-H. Kirkegaard
• Robustness of large-span timber roof structures - structural aspects - P. Dietsch
• Robustness of large-span timber roof structures - two examples - J. Munch-Andersen
• Robustness of timber structures in seismic areas - J. Branco
• Example of a probabilistic robustness analysis: Croatian sports hall - D. Cizmar