This paper reviews the official documentation (standards, guidelines and procedures)
available for the assessment of heritage timber structures. The subsequent discussion does …

Detailed survey and inspection of the structure of the lecture hall of the Anyuan Miners' Club
were conducted during a restoration project. Nondestructive inspection measures were used …

The assessment of existing timber structures comprises several fields of knowledge, each
one providing its own piece of information aiming at an effective answer. Even if general …

One of the main motivations for hierarchical modeling is to understand how properties,
composition and structure at lower scale levels may influence and be used to predict the …

To explore the harm of carpenter bee nests to timber buildings, an eave purlin of Wu's
house, the seventh batch of national key cultural relics in China, was taken as the research …

The past decades have seen a renewed interest in timber research related topics. As
instance, timber engineering is not only confined to the design of new construction with …

The article presents a conception and prototype of a new diagnostic tool for in-situ
evaluation of wood inbuilt into constructions. Current techniques and tools for structural …

In this work, the uncertainty related to the process of visual inspection of timber elements as
a method to define different strength classes is quantified. For that aim, visual inspection was …

The assessment of the mechanical properties of existing timber elements could benefit from
the use of probabilistic information gathered at different scales. In this work, Bayesian …

This dissertation covers the study of historic timber roof structures in Transylvania area-
Romania, the structures type, its elements and connection variety between them …