1. History of timber structures review, development prospects and field of timber structures application in civil engineering. 2. Properties of wood and wood-based materials for structural purposes, material characteristics. 3. Wood-based materials – kinds and their properties for structural purposes 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 footbridges. Specialized timber structures. 12. Production, assembly, protection and maintenance of timber structures, fire resistance. 13. Principles of reconstruction and rehabilitation of timber structures.

1. Properties of timber and timber-based materials for structural purposes. 2. Limit states and basics of timber structures computer modelling. 3. Basic types of strain of members and structural parts of the timber structures: members under tension, bending, torsion or axial compression. 4. Fasteners of timber structures, examples of typical connection design: mechanical connections, glued connections. 5. Plane solid girders: Examples of design and detailing of timber 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.