Timber is one of the most common materials that had been use for a long time. The need for new buildings will affect the climate negatively, that is why it’s necessarily to find new ways to build quickly and sustainably. Cross-laminated timber (CLT) product came in the 1990- century. The material was developed to be used in high residential wood constructions buildings. The material considered to have good properties compared with other types of wood material, some of the studies showed the possibilities of building high residential with the CLT material. Such high rises buildings work best when CLT wood constructions combined with other materials, which called, Composite constructions. Case study preformed theoretically in Fullriggaren building in Alderholmen in Gävle city, the building have 14 floors and about 40 m high. With the purpose of trying to investigate the consequences that occur when the concrete floor slabs were replaces  with CLT wood floor slabs, taking into account the rules and standards for fire safety, acoustics, oscillations and vibrations. In order to achieve this and to determine the most suitable alternatives, the different types of CLT-wood floor slabs was compared. The building studied in its design and execution, and a simpler model created in Revit 2018. The challenge was that the building has a long span of maximum 10 m. The different types of CLT floor slabs which compared in the study was, CLT timber joist slaps, flat floor slab and CLT wood floor slabs in combination with steel hat beams and other beam steel types. Each type of floor slabs had its advantages and disadvantages, but the results and studies showed that timber and concrete composite floor slab combined with steel hat beams are the best possible options for the construction in Fullriggaren building, where the floor slab height is the shortest compared to other CLT wood floor types. With the chosen floor slab, the problem of vibration and oscillations will minimize. When using such a floor slab, the building height will increase, which means in this case, removing an entire floor from the building. / Trä är ett av de vanligaste material som har används sedan länge i byggkonstruktioner. Behovet av nya byggnader kommer att påverka klimatet på ett negativ sätt, därför är det bra att bygga snabbt och hållbart. Korslimmat trä (KL-trä) är en produkt som kom under 1990-talet. Trämaterialet utvecklades där den kan användas i träkonstruktioner i flervåningshus.Materialet anses ha goda egenskaper jämfört med andra typer av trämaterialen, litteraturstudier visade på möjligheten att bygga högt med KL-trämaterialet. Liknande höghus fungerar bäst när KL-träkonstruktioner kombineras med andra material s.k. Hybrida konstruktioner. Fallstudien utfördes teoretisk i  Fullriggarenbyggnaden i Alderholmen i Gävle, som består av 14 våningar och är ca  40 m högt. Syftet var att undersöka konsekvenserna som uppstår när betongbjälklaget ersätts med KL-träbjälklag, hänsyn tas till regler och normer när det gäller brandsäkerhet, akustik, svängningar och vibrationer. För att uppnå detta och kunna bestämma lämpligaste alternativ, jämfördes olika typer av KL-träbjälklag. Byggnaden undersöktes beträffande konstruktion och utförande, och en enklare modell skapades i Revit 2018. Utmaningen var att byggnaden har långa spännvidder med max 10 m. Olika typer av KL-bjälklag jämfördes som kassettbjälklag, samverkanbjälklag, plattbjälklag och KL-trä bjälklag i kombination med stålhattbalkar och andra ståltyper. Varje typ av bjälklag har sina fördelar och nackdelar, men resultatet och studierna visade att samverkabjälklag kombinerad  med stålhattbalkar är den bästa lösningen för konstruktionen i Fullriggaren, då dess tvärsnitthöjd är den minsta jämfört med andra KL-träbjälklagtyper. Med det valde  bjälklaget minskas även problemet med vibrationer och svängningar. Vid användning av detta bjälklag kommer byggnadshöjden att ökas, vilket leder till att  en våning måste väljas bort.

Increasing awareness of sustainable building materials has led to interest in enhancing the structural performance of engineered wood products. Wood is a sustainable, renewable material, and the increasing use of wood in construction contributes to its sustainability. Multi-layer wooden panels are one type of engineered wood product used in construction. There are various techniques to assemble multi-layer wooden panels into prefabricated, load-bearing construction elements. Assembly techniques considered in the earliest stages of this research work were laminating, nailing, stapling, screwing, stress laminating, doweling, dovetailing, and wood welding. Cross-laminated timber (CLT) was found to offer some advantages over these other techniques. It is cost-effective, not patented, offers freedom of choice regarding the visibility of surfaces, provides the possibility of using different timber quality in the same panel at different points of its thickness, and is the most well-established assembly technique currently used in the industrial market. Building upon that foundational work, the operational capabilities of CLT were further evaluated by creating panels with different layer orientations. The mechanical properties of CLT panels constructed with layers angled in an alternative configuration produced on a modified industrial CLT production line were evaluated. Timber lamellae were adhesively bonded in a single-step press procedure to form CLT panels. Transverse layers were laid at a 45° angle instead of the conventional 90° angle with respect to the longitudinal layers’ 0° angle. Tests were carried out on 40 five-layered CLT panels, each with either a ±45° or a 90° configuration. Half of these panels were evaluated under bending: out-of-plane loading was applied in the principal orientation of the panels via four-point bending. The other twenty were evaluated under compression: an in-plane uniaxial compressive loading was applied in the principal orientation of the panels. Quasi-static loading conditions were used for both in- and out-of-plane testing to determine the extent to which the load-bearing capacity of such panels could be enhanced under the current load case. Modified CLT showed higher stiffness, strength, and fifth-percentile characteristics, values that indicate the load-bearing capacity of these panels as a construction material. Failure modes under in- and out-of-plane loading for each panel type were also assessed. Data from out-of-plane loading were further analysed. A non-contact full-field measurement and analysis technique based on digital image correlation (DIC) was utilised for analysis at global and local scales. DIC evaluation of 100 CLT layers showed that a considerable part of the stiffness of conventional CLT is reduced by the shear resistance of its transverse layers. The presence of heterogeneous features, such as knots, has the desirable effect of reducing the propagation of shear fraction along the layers. These results call into question the current grading criteria in the CLT standard. It is suggested that the lower timber grading limit be adjusted for increased value-yield. The overall experimental results suggest the use of CLT panels with a ±45°-layered configuration for construction. They also motivate the use of alternatively angled layered panels for more construction design freedom, especially in areas that demand shear resistance. In addition, the design possibility that such 45°-configured CLT can carry a given load while using less material than conventional CLT suggests the potential to use such panels in a wider range of structural applications. The results of test production revealed that 45°-configured CLT can be industrially produced without using more material than is required for construction of conventional 90°-configured panels. Based on these results, CLT should be further explored as a suitable product for use in more wooden-panel construction. / <p>External cooperation: Martinson Group AB and Research Institutes of Sweden (RISE)</p>