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Award For Timber Joint Design Work

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Jun 25 2003

Dr Greg Foliente of CSIRO Sustainable Built Environment and Professor Ian Smith of the University of New Brunswick (Canada) have won the American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE) 2003 James Croes Medal for their work on developing a new design procedure for timber joints in construction.

Their paper, "Load and resistance factor design of timber joints: international practice and future direction", examines the work required to elevate the load and resistance factor design (LRFD) of joints to a comparative level to the LRFD of timber members.

Dr Foliente says, "While several countries have implemented reliability concepts in the design of wood members, no code in the world has implemented proper reliability-based design for the design of timber joints".

"The importance of this has become apparent after assessments of timber buildings damaged after extreme events such as earthquakes and tropical cyclones, which often point to the inadequate performance of connections as the primary cause of failure."

Source: CSIRO

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