A review of structural robustness and timber buildings

What is it about?

Timber buildings are getting taller. Tall buildings require more attention on structural robustness because more people are at risk if something unforeseen happens, like an accident or a terrorist attack. So far, people have looked into the robustness of steel and concrete buildings but they have not put focus on timber buildings. In our article, we review the concept of robustness and we gather the available information about robustness of timber buildings.

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Why is it important?

In tall timber buildings, more people are at risk if something unforeseen happens, like an accident or a terrorist attack If we make a timber building robust, we can minimise the harm done to people in these cases. Our findings show that there are some guidelines available for light timber-frame buildings, but only few for post and beam structures, cross-laminates timber buildings and prefabricated modules.

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