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Stiffness and Shear Stress Distribution of Glulam Beams in Elastic-Plastic Stage: Theory, Experiments and Numerical Modelling
Lisheng Luo1,*, Xinran Xie1, Yongqiang Zhang1, Xiaofeng Zhang2, Xinyue Cui1
1
Department of Civil Engineering, College of Civil Engineering and Architecture, Hainan University, Haikou, China
2
Department of Wooden Structure Construction, College of Materials Science and Engineering, Nanjing Forestry University,
Nanjing, China
* Corresponding Author: Lisheng Luo. Email:
(This article belongs to this Special Issue: Advanced Wood Composites from Renewable Materials)
Journal of Renewable Materials 2023, 11(2), 791-809. https://doi.org/10.32604/jrm.2022.022539
Received 15 March 2022; Accepted 05 May 2022; Issue published 22 September 2022
Abstract
Traditional methods focus on the ultimate bending moment of glulam beams and the fracture failure of materials
with defects, which usually depends on empirical parameters. There is no systematic theoretical method to predict
the stiffness and shear distribution of glulam beams in elastic-plastic stage, and consequently, the failure of such
glulam beams cannot be predicted effectively. To address these issues, an analytical method considering material
nonlinearity was proposed for glulam beams, and the calculating equations of deflection and shear stress distribution for different failure modes were established. The proposed method was verified by experiments and
numerical models under the corresponding conditions. Results showed that the theoretical calculations were in
good agreement with experimental and numerical results, indicating that the equations proposed in this paper
were reliable and accurate for such glulam beams with wood material in the elastic-plastic stage ignoring the influence of mechanic properties in radial and tangential directions of wood. Furthermore, the experimental results
reported by the previous studies indicated that the method was applicable and could be used as a theoretical reference for predicting the failure of glulam beams.
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Luo, L., Xie, X., Zhang, Y., Zhang, X., Cui, X. (2023). Stiffness and Shear Stress Distribution of Glulam Beams in Elastic-Plastic Stage: Theory, Experiments and Numerical Modelling.
Journal of Renewable Materials, 11(2), 791–809.