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Connection Solutions in Modern Timber Structures
Baltimore, Washington, Raleigh
March 2013
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“The Wood Products Council” is a Registered Provider with The American Institute of Architects Continuing Education Systems (AIA/CES). Credit(s) earned on completion of this program will be reported to AIA/CES for AIA members. Certificates of Completion for both AIA members and non-AIA members are available upon request. This program is registered with AIA/CES for continuing professional education. As such, it does not include content that may be deemed or construed to be an approval or endorsement by the AIA of any material of construction or any method or manner of handling, using, distributing, or dealing in any material or product. Questions related to specific materials, methods, and services will be addressed at the conclusion of this presentation.
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LEARNING OBJECTIVES: AT THE END OF THIS PROGRAM, PARTICIPANTS WILL BE ABLE TO
1. Learn about state-of-the-art timber fabrication and
connection technology and how they can be used in
actual structures.
2. Learn about sustainability and other advantages of
timber as a construction material.
3. Learn how these advantages and the recent
changes in the timber industry have impacted the
decision to use wood in many public projects large
and small.
4. See numerous innovative timber project examples.
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1998 5th World Conference on Timber Engineering Montreux — Switzerland
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Morges Arena — Morges, Switzerland
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RENEWED USE OF WOOD IN COMMERCIAL CONSTRUCTION
• Renewed interest in timber as an architectural medium
• Technical advances in materials, fabrication, connections &
fire protection
• Trends towards sustainable construction
• Economics (material cost and construction time)
• Successful out of country examples
• Political will: Woodworks! and Wood first policies
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TRANSFORMATIVE ADVANCES
• 3D Modeling and CNC Fabrication
• New Age Connections
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3D MODELLING + DETAILING
• CadWork
• Dietrich
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CNC FABRICATION
• Hundegger K2
• Créneau
• Number of structural wood frame CNCʼs in 1998
North America: 2
Switzerland: 300
Today, about 75 CNCʼs in North America.
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HUNDEGGER K2
• German design
• 3 axis or 5 axis
• Fixed tool head
• Up to 10” x 14” pieces, 24ʼ long
• Fast, reliable and economical
• The Volkswagen of CNCʼs
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CRÉNEAU
• French design
• 5 axis – 14 tool rack
• Gantry type
• Up to 16” x 60” pieces, 100ʼ long or more
• Extremely versatile
• Slower and more expensive
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CONNECTIONS
• North American connectors
• Others
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NORTH AMERICAN CONNECTORS
• Nails + screws
• Bolts
• Drift Pins
• Lag screws
• Timber rivets
• Shear Plates + split rings
• Truss plates
• Pre-engineered light gauge metal connectors (Simpson)
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OTHERS
• Notches (wood-to-wood; Steel-to-wood)
• Castings
• Block Gluing
• Tight-fit pins + bolts
• Ring nails
• Glued-in rods / rebar
• BVD system by Bertsche
• WS system by SFS Intec
• New-age self-tapping screws
• Sherpa system
• HBV system by TiComTec
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086 – 01 – CLAUSE 3.3.2
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086 – 01 – CLAUSE 3.3.2
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• First principles: Notches, castings
• Foreign codes: Block gluing, ring nails, tight-fit bolts + pins
• Proprietary: Bertsche, SFS – WS, Self-tapping screws, Sherpa, HBV, etc.
Supported by empirical data and local approvals.
NOTCHES
• Used all over the world for centuries
• Making a comeback due to CNC fabrication
• Design from first principles
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Wood to Wood Single and Double Notches
CASTINGS
• Design from first principle
• Extremely versatile, elegant, reliable
• Relatively economical in large numbers
• Susceptible to fire
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BLOCK GLUING
• Gluing of glue laminated elements to form
built-up shapes
• Uses low-pressure glues
• Used to increase the cross section (at
connections or for long unrestrained
compression elements)
• Careful: Low-pressure glues are often soft
and susceptible to creep
Avoid in bending members
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TIGHT-FIT PINS + BOLTS
• Design using European codes, reconciling values for load factors, wood species, etc.
• Hole in the wood must be 0.0 to 0.5mm smaller than the pin
• Hole in the steel is 0.0 to 1.0 mm larger than the pin.
• Multiple fastener connections only practical with the use of CNC fabrication
• Reliable, concealed and elegant
• Can use multiple knife plates
• Can achieve ductile connections with small diameter pins
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WHY TIGHT FIT?
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Unequally loaded bolts in a bolt group.
RING NAILS
• Covered in European codes (Swiss)
• Similar to timber rivets
• Some proprietary (Gunnebo – Sweden)
• Can be used for ductile connections
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GLUED-IN RODS / REBAR
• Rebar glued into the wood with epoxy
• Popular in Australia and Europe, some examples in USA & Canada
• Proprietary systems – Ferwood (Ducret - Orges in Switzerland)
• Versatile, concealed (fire resistant)
• Reliable perpendicular to grain (30º or more from grain axis)
• Less reliable parallel to grain (less than 30º from grain axis)
• Must use the right resin
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BVD STYSTEM BY BERTSCHE
• Proprietary system from Germany
• Probably the strongest available in tension
• Reliable, concealed
• Tight-fit
• Not as versatile as some
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WS SYTEM BY SFS INTEC
• Proprietary system from Switzerland
• Consists of self-tapping, small diameter tight-fit dowel system
• Compact, reliable, concealed, elegant
• Ductile (due to small diameter dowels)
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SELF-TAPPING SCREWS
• Proprietary (SFS, GRK, Wurth, Heco, etc)
• Up to 1/2” diameter, up to 24” long
• Self-tapping – no pre-drilling
• Fast and more reliable than North-American lag bolts
• Elegant, low profile heads
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SHERPA
• Proprietary system from Germany
• Consists of an aluminum dovetail connection fastened to the timber with self-
tapping screws
• Fast erection
• Completely invisible
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HBV SYSTEMS BY TiComTec
• Proprietary system from Germany
• Concrete – wood composite and wood to wood
• Steel mesh bonded to the wood with patented resin
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EVOLUTION
INNOVATION
PROJECT EXAMPLES
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Alert Bay Community Centre — Alert Bay, BC
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Pepperbridge Winery — Washington
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Nicola Valley Institute of Technology — Merritt, CB
Busby and Associates (Perkins+Will)
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Salteau Community Centre — Moberly Lake, BC
Communities + Architecture / Marshall Arts
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Doig River Band Community Centre — Rose Prairie, BC
Ib G Hansen Architect
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Skeetchestn School — Chase, BC
Ib G. Hansen Architect
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Prince George Airport Expansion Phase I&II — Prince George, BC
McFarlane Green Architects
Phase I
Phase II
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Squamish LilʼWat Cultural Centre — Whistler, BC
Alfred Waugh Architect
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Raleigh Durham Airport – Terminal C Expansion — North Carolina
Fentress Bradburn Architects
Original Glued-in Rod Tail Connection
Original King-Post Connection
BVD STYSTEM BY BERTSCHE
• Proprietary system from Germany
• Probably the strongest available in tension
• Reliable, concealed
• Tight-fit
• Not as versatile as some
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Revised Tail Connection
Revised King-Post Connection
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First Peopleʼs House — University of Victoria, BC
Alfred Waugh Architect
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Marie Victorin Soccer Stadium — Montréal, QC
Nordic Wood Structures
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BRACE DETAILS
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GAP
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GAP
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Outma SquilxʼW Cultural School — Penticton, BC
Iredale Group Architecture
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Ecole Mer et Montagne — Campbell River, BC
McFarland Marceau Architects
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OʼSyiam Pavilion — Squamish, BC
Alfred Waugh Architect
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Art Gallery of Ontario– Galleria Italia —
Toronto, ON
Frank Gehry Architect
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QUESTIONS?
This concludes The American Institute of Architects
Continuing Education Systems Course
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J Eric Karsh, M.Eng., P.Eng., Struct.Eng., MIStructE, Ing
604 730 1422
Equilibrium Consulting Inc.
202-388 West 8th Avenue, Vancouver BC, Canada
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