Simplified procedure for the description from the long-term behaviour of timber-concrete composite structures

The γ-procedure is favoured to design timber-concrete composite structures. This procedure is component of current national as well as European timber standards. The γ-procedure isn't suitable to describe the long-term behaviour, because it does not consider the shrinkage of concrete for example. A simplified procedure is introduced in the following. This procedure considers creeping of timber and concrete and - for the first time - swelling and shrinkage of these materials, as well as the long-term behaviour of the shear connectors. Currently it is applicable only to inner structures. © Ernst & Sohn Verlag fur Architektur und technische Wissenschaften GmbH & Co. KG, Berlin.