Lecture by Prof. Weinand in California
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Professor Yves Weinand, director of IBOIS will give three conferences in October in California (USA).
Professor Weinand is taking part in the Graduate Seminar Talks at the prestigious : University of Southern California (USC), University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) and the University of California, San Diego (UCSD).
On Monday, October 14th the first conference of Prof. Weinand will be held at the University of Southern California. This talk is co-organized by Professors Erik Johnson, Felipe De Barros, Burcin Becerik and Patrick Joseph Lynett, on the theme of Advanced Timber Construction, using digital manufacturing and robotic assemblies.
Date: 10.14.2019
Location: KAP 210 - RRI 101 , USC Viterbi School of Engineering, University of Southern California
Time: 4:00 pm
The next day, October 15, Professor Weinand will visit UCLA for a second presentation, invited by Prof. Henry Burton, co-director (with prof. Weinand) of a current thesis at IBOIS (Mechanical Characterization of Integrally-Attached Timber Plate Structures, by Aryan Rezaei Rad).
Date: 10.15.2019
Location: to be defined, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of California Los Angeles
Time: 1:00 pm
Finally, on Wednesday, October 16, the third and final presentation will be given to the UCSD. This talk is organised by Prof. Ken Loh and Prof. Tara Hutchinson.
Date: 10.16.2019
Location: Warren Lecture Hall, Room 2111, Department of Structural Engineering, University of California San Diego
Time: 12:00
Abstract:
Using renewable resources
Sustainable timber construction aims to develop optimized design solutions through including the recent advancements in digital fabrication, robotic assembly, material science, and structural mechanics. Toward this end, IBOIS at EPFL aims to develop a next generation of timber construction using a wide range of timber products from natural wood resources such as tree trucks to engineered products such as Laminated Veneer Lumbers. Combing the state of the art in digital architecture, robotic science, and structural engineering, spatial non-standard timber structures are developed using algorithmic geometry processing, and their performance are evaluated using novel mechanical models. The primary aim is to construct timber structures through their form/geometry and without using additional connectors such as screws, nails, fasteners, and adhesives.
Lectures will be given in English.
Yves Weinand is an architect, structural engineer, founder of Bureau d’Etudes Weinand and, at present, professor at the Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne in the position as head of IBOIS, a laboratory for timber construction.
Trajectory
Since the beginning of his professional career, Yves Weinand has positioned himself at the intersection between architecture and engineering. Thanks to his studies at Institut Supérieur d’Architecture de Saint Luc (B) and the Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne he combines both approaches under one single perspective : generating innovative architectural design through innovative construction processes.
Academic positions and professional experiences took him from his home country Belgium to Finland, Switzerland, USA, Germany and Austria. He upheld his doctoral thesis while being scientific collaborator at the Chair of Structures at the Reinische Westfälische Technische Hochschule Aachen (RWTH), Germany, opened simultaneously his own architectural and engineering consulting firm Bureau d’Etude Weinand in Liège, Belgium, before becoming director of the institute of structures at University of Graz, Austria, in 2001.
Over the years, the material timber became central in his professional activities. Since his appointment as director of the laboratory of timber construction at the Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (IBOIS), Switzerland, in 2004 he has had both the theoretical and the practical means at hand to pioneer research in both structural engineering and architecture Timber Constructions in publication list below. He directs an interdisciplinary group of architects, engineers, mathematicians and computer scientists who perform research work in the field of timber rib shells, folded timber plate structures, woven timber structures, integral mechanical wood-wood connections and robotically assembled timber structures.
Thanks to his wide-ranging activities as a researcher, professor and practitioner, Yves Weinand shares his unique expertise in timber structural design regularly as a speaker at international conferences and various competitions and exhibitions.