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METHODS FOR OPTIMISATION OF
WOODEN STRUCTURAL ELEMENTS
Timber represents a building material that aligns with the environmental demands on the impact
of the construction sector on climate change. The most common engineering solution for modern
timber buildings with large spans is glued laminate timber (glulam). This project proposes a tool for
a topological optimised geometry generator of structural elements made of glulam that can be used
for building a database of topologically optimised glulam beams. In turn, this can be further used to
train machine learning models that can embed the topologically optimised geometry and structural
behavior information. By Daniela Țăpuși, Andrei-Dan Sabău, Adrian-Alexandru Savu, Ruxandra-
Irina Erbașu and Ioana Teodorescu, Technical University of Civil Engineering Bucharest
he construction industry contributes to approximately to mitigate the environmental impact of building elements:
40–50 percent of greenhouse gas emissions. This figure structural optimisation by minimising the elements’ section
Tincludes both the energy consumed during building and the use of low-carbon materials. This is the reason why
operations on site and the energy used in the manufacturing wood and wood products such as glued laminated timber are
of construction materials and products. valued and have gained success as a construction material
Two main strategies have been thoroughly investigated nowadays.
Shutthiphong Chandaeng
