{"id":229,"date":"2023-07-11T17:56:55","date_gmt":"2023-07-11T21:56:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/viau\/?p=229"},"modified":"2025-07-29T14:57:06","modified_gmt":"2025-07-29T18:57:06","slug":"wcte","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/viau\/2023\/wcte\/","title":{"rendered":"World Conference on Timber Engineering"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<section class=\"w-screen px-6 cu-section cu-section--white ml-offset-center md:px-8 lg:px-14\">\n    <div class=\"space-y-6 cu-max-w-child-5xl  md:space-y-10 cu-prose-first-last\">\n\n            <div class=\"cu-textmedia flex flex-col lg:flex-row mx-auto gap-6 md:gap-10 my-6 md:my-12 first:mt-0 max-w-5xl\">\n        <div class=\"justify-start cu-textmedia-content cu-prose-first-last\" style=\"flex: 0 0 100%;\">\n            <header class=\"font-light prose-xl cu-pageheader md:prose-2xl cu-component-updated cu-prose-first-last\">\n                                    <h1 class=\"cu-prose-first-last font-semibold !mt-2 mb-4 md:mb-6 relative after:absolute after:h-px after:bottom-0 after:bg-cu-red after:left-px text-3xl md:text-4xl lg:text-5xl lg:leading-[3.5rem] pb-5 after:w-10 text-cu-black-700 not-prose\">\n                        World Conference on Timber Engineering\n                    <\/h1>\n                \n                                \n                            <\/header>\n\n                    <\/div>\n\n            <\/div>\n\n    <\/div>\n<\/section>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Greetings from Oslo, Norway!<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"771\" src=\"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/viau\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/122\/2025\/07\/PXL_20230622_142233103-scaled-1-1024x771.jpg\" alt=\"image\" class=\"wp-image-588\" srcset=\"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/viau\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/122\/2025\/07\/PXL_20230622_142233103-scaled-1-1024x771.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/carleton.ca\/viau\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/122\/2025\/07\/PXL_20230622_142233103-scaled-1-512x386.jpg 512w, https:\/\/carleton.ca\/viau\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/122\/2025\/07\/PXL_20230622_142233103-scaled-1-320x241.jpg 320w, https:\/\/carleton.ca\/viau\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/122\/2025\/07\/PXL_20230622_142233103-scaled-1-768x578.jpg 768w, https:\/\/carleton.ca\/viau\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/122\/2025\/07\/PXL_20230622_142233103-scaled-1-1536x1157.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/carleton.ca\/viau\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/122\/2025\/07\/PXL_20230622_142233103-scaled-1-2048x1542.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>I was fortunate to attend the 2023 World Conference on Timber Engineering, where my research team and I&nbsp; presented 5 conference papers:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Fink, Z., Jockwer, R., \u0160u\u0161ter\u0161i\u010d, I., Stepinac, M., Palma, P., Bedon, C., Casagrande, D., Franke, S., D\u2019Arenzo, G., Brandon, D., and <strong>Viau, C.<\/strong>&nbsp;(2023). \u201cHolistic Design of Taller Timber Buildings \u2013 COST Action HELEN (CA20139).\u201d Proceedings of the 2023 World Conference on Timber Engineering, Oslo, Norway.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><u>Baird, Z.<\/u>, Woods, J.,&nbsp;<strong>Viau, C.,&nbsp;<\/strong>and Doudak, G. (2023). \u201cSeismic Performance of Bolted Glulam Timber Brace Connections with Internal Steel Plates.\u201d Proceedings of the 2023 World Conference on Timber Engineering, Oslo, Norway.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><u>Wight, N.<\/u>,&nbsp;<strong>Viau, C.,&nbsp;<\/strong>and Heffernan, P. J. (2023). \u201cGlued-Laminated Timber Under Extreme Cold Temperatures Subjected to Impact Loading.\u201d Proceedings of the 2023 World Conference on Timber Engineering, Oslo, Norway.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><u>Oliveira, D.<\/u>,&nbsp;<strong>Viau, C.,&nbsp;<\/strong>and Doudak, G. (2023). \u201cPredictive Capabilities of Finite Element Modelling for Timber Members Subjected to Blast Loads.\u201d Proceedings of the 2023 World Conference on Timber Engineering, Oslo, Norway.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Doudak, G., <strong>Viau, C.,&nbsp;<\/strong>and Lacroix, D. (2023). \u201cLessons Learned from a Decade of Research on Wood Assemblies Under Blast Loading.\u201d Proceedings of the 2023 World Conference on Timber Engineering, Oslo, Norway.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>You can read more about them on the <a href=\"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/viau\/publications\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Publications page<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" src=\"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/viau\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/122\/2025\/07\/IMG-20230622-WA00002.jpg\" alt=\"image\" class=\"wp-image-589\" srcset=\"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/viau\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/122\/2025\/07\/IMG-20230622-WA00002.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/carleton.ca\/viau\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/122\/2025\/07\/IMG-20230622-WA00002-512x384.jpg 512w, https:\/\/carleton.ca\/viau\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/122\/2025\/07\/IMG-20230622-WA00002-320x240.jpg 320w, https:\/\/carleton.ca\/viau\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/122\/2025\/07\/IMG-20230622-WA00002-768x576.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Dr. Viau giving a talk.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Greetings from Oslo, Norway! I was fortunate to attend the 2023 World Conference on Timber Engineering, where my research team and I&nbsp; presented 5 conference papers: You can read more about them on the Publications page.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-229","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"acf":{"cu_post_thumbnail":"event-lecture"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/viau\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/229","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/viau\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/viau\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/viau\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/viau\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=229"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/viau\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/229\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":633,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/viau\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/229\/revisions\/633"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/viau\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=229"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/viau\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=229"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/viau\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=229"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}