Assessment of all wide span Timber Structures owned by the City Munich
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Bibliographic Details
| Author(s): |
Philipp Dietsch
Stefan Winter |
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| Medium: | conference paper | ||||
| Language(s): | English | ||||
| Conference: | IABSE Symposium: Sustainable Infrastructure - Environment Friendly, Safe and Resource Efficient, Bangkok, Thailand, 9-11 September 2009 | ||||
| Published in: | IABSE Symposium Bangkok 2009 | ||||
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| Page(s): | 11-18 | ||||
| Total no. of pages: | 8 | ||||
| Year: | 2009 | ||||
| DOI: | 10.2749/222137809796078702 | ||||
| Abstract: |
Following the Bad Reichenhall ice-arena collapse, the Chair of Timber Structures and Building Construction at the Technische Universität München conducted a large-scale project to assess the structural reliability of all 152 wide-span timber structures under the responsibility of the City of Munich. The paper presents the chosen approach and gives recommendations on how to assess wide-span timber structures as well as on intervals of future evaluations to maintain a designated level of safety. The concept of a Building Book will be introduced. The paper will conclude with a discussion of the observed types of failure, causes for failure and accountabilities for failures, referring to our database of 214 failed timber structures. |
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| Keywords: |
failures rehabilitation timber assessment structural reliability failure mechanisms wide-span structures
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