Abstract: The rehabilitation of old historic buildings often requires retrofitting traditional timber connections. Experimental and numerical methods were used in this work to study the elastic and postelastic behavior of the ...

Abstract: Conservative restoration principles developed for the protection of monuments are currently applied in the structural upgrading of traditional existing buildings in order to preserve their cultural heritage. Timber structures, ...

Abstract: Ductility is a fundamental component in the design of robust structures. For timber structures, the unfavorable material characteristics pose particular problems to its realization. Two approaches for improving the ...