Value-driven design approach for optimal long-span timber-concrete composite floor in multi-storey wooden residential buildings
2020 (English)In: Civil engineering and environmental systems (Print), ISSN 1028-6608, E-ISSN 1029-0249, Vol. 37, no 3, p. 100-116Article in journal (Refereed) Published
Abstract [en]
Long-span timber-concrete composite (TCC) floor systems have the potential to address the design challenges for conventional wooden floors in residential multi-storey timber frame buildings. The aim of this paper is to develop a design approach for long-span timber-concrete composite floor system of 6-9 m. A framework based on value-driven design approach has been developed for integration of results from graphical multi-objective optimisation, spreadsheet-based analysis, structural static and dynamic finite element analysis, and multi-criteria decision making. To verify the developed framework, a residential five-storey timber frame building as a case study has been studied. Optimal design includes optimised thickness of the concrete and optimised smeared stiffness of connectors for three different comfort classes A to C in descending order. TCC floor with span length 7.3 [m] belonging to comfort class A and TCC floor with span length 9.0 [m] belonging to comfort class C has been chosen as optimal solutions. The results indicate that proposed and innovative design approach is a promising tool for developers, architects and structural engineers when designing optimal long-span timber-concrete composite floor system.
Place, publisher, year, edition, pages
Taylor & Francis, 2020. Vol. 37, no 3, p. 100-116
Keywords [en]
Timber-concrete composite, floor system, long-span, multi-storey, serviceability, sustainability, multi-objective
National Category
Civil Engineering
Identifiers
URN: urn:nbn:se:hb:diva-24823DOI: 10.1080/10286608.2020.1808888ISI: 000561080400001Scopus ID: 2-s2.0-85089580178OAI: oai:DiVA.org:hb-24823DiVA, id: diva2:1521837
2021-01-252021-01-252021-11-30Bibliographically approved