Investigation on Elements Presenting Cracks in Timber Structures

Magnière, Noëlie; Franke, Steffen; Franke, Bettina (2014). Investigation on Elements Presenting Cracks in Timber Structures In: World Conference on Timber Engineering 2014. Quebec City, Canada. 10.-14.08.2014.

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The increasing number of wood structure amongst large and potentially public buildings gave a new impulse to the assessment of timber structures. For assessing the state of timber elements, cracks are a key indicator. However, no standard currently provides methods to evaluate the impact of these cracks. Therefore, an investigation to gather information about the most frequent characteristics of cracked timber structures has been carried out. This investigation provides the main characteristics of both the timber elements and the crack distributions encountered. These main characteristics have then been used to define a numerical model in order to investigate the impact of cracks on the stiffness and load-carrying capacity of timber beams. Based on these results, a model has been developed to calculate the reduction of the global beam stiffness.

Item Type:	Conference or Workshop Item (Paper)
Division/Institute:	School of Architecture, Wood and Civil Engineering School of Architecture, Wood and Civil Engineering > Institute for Timber Construction, Structures and Architecture School of Architecture, Wood and Civil Engineering > AHB Teaching School of Architecture, Wood and Civil Engineering > Institute for Timber Construction IHB
Name:	Magnière, Noëlie; Franke, Steffen0000-0003-2430-8491 and Franke, Bettina0000-0002-8087-9347
Subjects:	T Technology > TH Building construction
ISBN:	9781510858206
Submitter:	Steffen Franke
Date Deposited:	25 Feb 2020 12:47
Last Modified:	18 Sep 2024 10:44
Related URLs:	Publication
Uncontrolled Keywords:	Timber structures Assessments Numerical investigation Cracks Stiffness Load-carrying capacity
ARBOR DOI:	10.24451/arbor.7220
URI:	https://arbor.bfh.ch/id/eprint/7220