Numerical model to predict the effect of wood density in wood–steel–wood connections with and without passive protection under fire

EMM Fonseca, L Silva, PAS Leite - Journal of Fire Sciences, 2020 - journals.sagepub.com
The main objective of this work is to present a numerical model to predict the effect of wood
density in unprotected wood connections with an internal steel plate (wood–steel–wood) …

Effect of the drying method of pine and beech wood on fracture toughness and shear yield stress

D Chuchala, J Sandak, KA Orlowski, T Muzinski… - Materials, 2020 - mdpi.com
The modern wood converting processes consists of several stages and material drying
belongs to the most influencing future performances of products. The procedure of drying …

Wood connections under fire conditions protected with gypsum plasterboard types A and F

EMM Fonseca, PAS Leite, L Silva - … : Selected Papers from the 5th Iberian …, 2020 - Springer
The wood behavior varies with temperature, which has a negative effect, being verified by
progressive properties degradation. After fire exposure, it is possible to measure the wood …

Structural safety in wooden beams under thermal and mechanical loading conditions

EMM Fonseca, D Coelho… - The International Journal …, 2012 - bibliotecadigital.ipb.pt
The main objective of this paper is to identify different analytical methods which permit the
calculation of the stress level in wooden simply supported beams, due to mechanical and …

Perforated cellular wooden slabs under fire: Numerical and experimental approaches

DLP Couto, EMM Fonseca, PAG Piloto… - Journal of Building …, 2016 - Elsevier
This work presents a numerical and experimental approach in order to predict the fire
resistance of perforated cellular wooden slabs. The wooden slabs are lightweight, easy …

Easy trends to analyse structural profiles: Lumped capacitance vs simplified equation

PN Oliveira, EMM Fonseca, R Campilho - International Journal of …, 2020 - recipp.ipp.pt
This work presents the calculation of the temperature in different cross-sections of structural
profiles (IPE, HEM, L and UAP) using the lumped capacitance method and the simplified …

Fire safety in perforated wooden slab, a numerical approach

EMM Fonseca, D Couto… - … Conference on Safety and …, 2013 - bibliotecadigital.ipb.pt
The main goal of this work is to present a numerical model to assess the fire safety of
wooden slabs with rectangular perforations at the ceiling. These typical constructions have …

Fire safety of wood-steel connections

EMM Fonseca, L Silva, PAS Leite - 4th International Conference on …, 2019 - recipp.ipp.pt
The main objective of this work is to present different analytical and computational methods
which permit the safe design calculation of the wood-steel connections, under fire …

Analysis of simply supported wood beams at ambient and high temperatures

EMM Fonseca, PJV Gouveia - International Journal of Engineering and …, 2018 - recipp.ipp.pt
The main objective of this work is to present a methodology for safety analysis of simply
supported wood beams at ambient and high temperatures with a concentrated load at mid …

[PDF][PDF] A brief study on the properties of selected wood, steel, and gypsum board, used in different connections

EMM Fonseca - Journal of Computational Applied Mechanics, 2024 - journals.ut.ac.ir
The main objective of this work is to present the general material properties used in timber-
steel and timber-timber connections which are the designed elements in different …