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Showing 1 to 7 of 7 for “"wooden buildings"”.
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Vernacular buildings and urban social practice – Wood and people in Early Modern Swedish society
Wooden houses were major components of the early modern Swedish townscape. Yet, today these buildings have largely disappeared due to fires, demolition and modernity. The main themes of the thesis are the study of what kind of wooden building techniques were used within the urban environment. The …
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Assessment of U.S. manufactured system built wooden homes as an affordable housing alternative for low income households in developing countries
… of new markets for exports of prefabricated wooden buildings in new geographical regions.
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Vibrations in Lightweight Buildings - Perception and Prediction
… the Swedish construction code (in 1994) allowed wooden multi-storey buildings to be built, this type of lightweight construction became popular due to its low cost and ease of construction, and also because wood is a plentiful resource in Sweden. Drawbacks in such buildings are disturbing …
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Displacement-Based Seismic Design of Timber Structures
… and evaluation of the seismic vulnerability of wooden structures, using a displacement-based approach. After a brief introduction on the seismic behaviour of timber structures, the general Direct Displacement-Based Design (Direct-DBD) procedure and the state-of-the-art are presented, with clear …
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Vibrations in lightweight structures - Efficiency and reduction of numerical models
Multi-storey wood buildings have been increasing in popularity since a century-old ban on the construction of such buildings was lifted in 1994. Compared to conventional concrete structures, it is more difficult to build lightweight structures in such a way that noise and disturbing vibrations is …
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Ironworking in late medieval Ireland, c. AD. 1200 to 1600
… woodland, ploughs for turning the soil, saws for wooden buildings and hammers and chisels for the stone ones, all of which could not realistically have been made from any other material. The many battles, waged with ever increasingly sophisticated weaponry, needed a steady supply of iron and …
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Das Gebäude M von Rottweil
Die folgende Arbeit behandelt einen Bereich des römischen Rottweil, der unter dem Begriff „Das Gebäude M“ bereits in der Fachliteratur eingeführt ist. Es handelt sich dabei um ein ca. 130 x 100 m großes Areal, das in den Jahren von 1970-2004 archäologisch untersucht wurde. Es konnten dabei zwei …