Design and Construction of Wholly Composite Building Structures
The lecture will be focused on the design and construction work of a wholly composite materials building –Yuzhulou by the Nanjing Foshou Lake, which was architectural designed by the famous construction designer Prof. Yonghe Zhang and structural designed and constructed by Advanced Engineering Composites Research Center, Nanjing University of technology. Besides some connections, the main structural member floorings and columns of the building were produced by using wood-based composite materials. It is worth mentioning that the columns, made from wood core pultrusion composites and have much better mechanical properties than normal hollow pultrusion components, were first time used in civil construction field in China.