Technical articles
Static
8 September 2021
One of the very first engineers working on form-finding is the Italian Pierluigi Nervi. He worked on this (without any FEM software!) because of the shortage […]
9 December 2020
It’s Christmas time and here in the office we were wondering how the position and the weight of the decoration can affect the equilibrium of a […]
7 May 2019
It’s always interesting and at the same time important, to understand the opinion of the different type of figures who work in the world of timber […]
3 October 2018
After the exponential growth of CLT production and the sprawling of multistory timber buildings all over world, the target seems to move toward tall timber constructions. […]
16 May 2018
The correct design of a frame building involves a series of precautions necessary in order to guarantee the fulfillment of the static requirements in compliance with […]
29 September 2017
Hold-down brackets (preventing up lift of walls) and square steel plates (preventing lateral translation of walls) are used to transfer lateral loads acting on walls. Hold-down […]
