1. History of timber structures review, development prospects, field of timber structures application in civil engineering. 2. Properties of wood and wood-based materials for structural purposes, material characteristics. 3. Spatial configuration of timber structures, bent types, bracing systems. 4. Rules of computer modelling of timber structures – structural geometry, bearing members connection, supports, material and cross-sectional characteristics, loading. 5. Limit states in timber structures, methods of their verifying. 6. Basic types of strain of timber members and timber structures elements. 7. Connections of timber structures and examples of basic structural details. 8. Plane solid girders, frames, and arches, glue laminated structures. 9. Truss girders, frames, and arches, guiding details of joints. 10. Basic types of spatial structures – spatial trusses, ribbed domes, vaults, shells and folded grids. 11. Timber structures for residential, administrative, agricultural and other purposes. 12. Production, assembly, protection and maintenance of timber structures, fire resistance. 13. Principles of timber structures reconstruction and rehabilitation.

1. Properties of timber and timber-based materials for structural purposes. 2. Limit states and basics of timber structures computer modeling. 3. Fasteners of timber structures, examples of typical connection design: mechanical connections, glued connections. 4. Basic types of strain of members and structural parts of the timber structures: members under tension, bending, torsion or compression. 5. Plane solid girders: Examples of design and detailing of glued laminated structures. 6. Plane truss structures: Examples of design and detailing. 7. Space rigidity of the roofing systems, bracings. 8. – 13. Individual assignments of the design of the timber roofing structure. Disposition arrangement and loading, design and detailing.