Publications by Anh Chi Nguyen

Displacement Study of a Large-Scale Freeform Timber Plate Structure Using a Total Station and a Terrestrial Laser Scanner

Recent advances in timber construction have led to the realization of complex timber plate structures assembled with wood-wood connections. Although advanced numerical modelling tools have been developed to perform their structural analysis, limited experi ...

2020

A Structural Design Methodology for Freeform Timber Plate Structures Using Wood-Wood Connections

Anh Chi Nguyen

Over the past decades, timber has gained popularity as a sustainable building material because of the rising environmental awareness. Furthermore, the resurgence of timber has also been encouraged by the advent of the digital age during the 21st century. T ...

EPFL2020

Semi-Rigidity of Through-Tenon Joints under Tension and Shear Loads and Perpendicular-to-Grain Compression

Yves Weinand, Anh Chi Nguyen, Aryan Rezaei Rad

This report presents the results of experimental tests performed on through-tenon joints used in double-layered and double-curved timber plate shells recently developed. Three tests were carried out to determine the semi-rigidity of these wood-wood connect ...

Laboratory for Timber Constructions IBOIS2019

Numerical Simulation of the Semi-Rigid Behaviour of Integrally Attached Timber Folded Surface Structures

Yves Weinand, Andrea Stitic, Anh Chi Nguyen, Aryan Rezaei Rad

Timber folded surface structures assembled using semi-rigid multiple tab and slot joints (MTSJ) have been shown to form feasible structural systems with high load bearing potential. However, for their further development and use on large building scales, a ...

2019

Performance Assessment of Double-Layered Timber Plate Shells using Alternative Structural Systems

Yves Weinand, Anh Chi Nguyen, Petras Vestartas, Bertrand Mathieu C Himmer

With recent advances in digital fabrication, innovative wood-wood connections inspired by ancient timber joining techniques have recently been applied to various free-form timber plate structures. This paper focuses on the recently developed double-layered ...

International Centre for Numerical Methods in Engineering (CIMNE)2019

Design framework for the structural analysis of free-form timber plate structures using wood-wood connections

Yves Weinand, Anh Chi Nguyen, Petras Vestartas

Geometrically complex timber plate structures using wood-wood connections are increasingly designed thanks to digital fabrication. Whereas their fabrication has been automated using computer-aided design programming, research focused on the development of ...

2019

Development of a Spring Model for the Structural Analysis of a Double-Layered Timber Plate Structure with Through-Tenon Joints

Yves Weinand, Anh Chi Nguyen

Timber plate structures with integral mechanical attachments have been successfully built in the last decades. Previous research has highlighted the influence of these connections in the global behavior of the structures. Double-layered plate shells are on ...

World Conference of Timber Engineering2018