Course Overview
As part of its work related to wooden buildings, FPInnovations recently published a comprehensive technical Guide for designing timber-concrete composite floors in Canada. This construction technique could be an economically profitable solution for longer-span floors since the mechanical properties of the two materials act in complementarity. The presentation overview of the recently published guide, which contains numerous illustrations and formulas to help the user in the design of his project. The connection systems, the ultimate and service limit states, the vibratory performance of the floor and the fire resistance is presented.
Learning Objectives
- Discovering the recently published timber-concrete design guide for timber-concrete composite (TCC) floor in Canada.
- Leaning the different types of connection systems for TCC floor.
- How to design for serviceability and ultimate limit states.
- Learning the fundamental theory of TCC floor.
Course Video
Speaker Bio
Samuel Cuerrier Auclair, P.Eng., M.Sc.
Scientist, Building Systems Group
FPInnovations
Samuel Cuerrier Auclair completed his master thesis in 2016 at Laval University where the subject was to optimise the ductility of timber-concrete composite beams. He started to work at FPInnovations in 2015 as a scientist in building system group. He participated on the research project of several subjects as timber-concrete composite floor, the structural performance of mass-timber shear wall, the vibration performance of mass-timber floor, the acoustic performance of building and more recently on wind-vibration of tall timber building.