Advances in Timber-Composite Processing and End-Products in Building Design
A special issue of Buildings (ISSN 2075-5309). This special issue belongs to the section "Building Materials, and Repair & Renovation".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (29 February 2024) | Viewed by 1706
Special Issue Editors
Interests: wood physics; non-destructive characterization; acoustics of wood; wood drying; hydrothermal treatment
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Interests: structural timber; wood mechanics; fire resistance of timber structures; fire safety
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
This Special Issue, entitled “Advances in Timber-Composite Processing and End-Products in Building Design”, will focus on high-quality original research articles and reviews on the latest approaches to the development of wood-based ecological materials, advanced wood processing features, and further advances in research on their industrial production and applications in building design. Wood is one of the oldest known materials in construction. It has been used for centuries to produce natural, renewable building elements that provide an alternative to steel or concrete. Despite the production of some successful and attractive wood-based materials (GLT, CLT, LVL...), wood also has shortcomings and various limitations, such as limited fire resistance, dimensional instability, mechanical anisotropy, creep and mechano-sorptive deformations, and susceptibility to various biotic and abiotic damages. Therefore, the aim of this Special Issue is to provide up-to-date knowledge on the latest processes for manufacturing wood- and lignocellulose-based building materials in order to present building products with improved or modified relevant properties. In addition, this Special Issue also provides space for presenting new technological solutions and identifying features and drawbacks of current materials that need improvement. Therefore, we encourage you to submit scientific papers or reviews on wood-based building products that expand the current knowledge on processing and end-uses, and identify potential new applications.
Dr. Aleš Straže
Prof. Dr. Tomaž Hozjan
Guest Editors
Manuscript Submission Information
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Keywords
- wood
- structural timber
- wood-based composites
- processing technologies
- end-use performance
- fire resistance
- fire safety
- building design
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