Pierre Landel

With wood, you not only build nice balconies and huts but also long bridges for high-speed trains, tall towers to capture wind energy and fine architecture for many generations. With a background as a designer and builder, I help the timber construction industry to reach the next step. In addition, I would like to know more than what we already know, therefore, at Linnaeus University I am investigating a new challenge for taller timber buildings: wind-induced vibrations. My doctoral project is about testing and better modeling the dynamic properties of timber structures (stiffness can be relatively simple but damping is thrilling...).
What I like: timber construction technology, Eurocodes, wood building, CLT, LVL, glulam, mechanical and glued joints