Experimental study on glued laminated timber beams with well-known knot morphology

G Kandler, M Lukacevic, J Füssl - European Journal of Wood and Wood …, 2018 - Springer
Nowadays, the impact of knots on the failure behaviour of glued laminated timber (GLT)
beams is considered by subjecting the single lamellas to a strength grading process, where …

Stochastic engineering framework for timber structural elements and its application to glued laminated timber beams

G Kandler, M Lukacevic, C Zechmeister, S Wolff… - … and Building Materials, 2018 - Elsevier
Due to the natural growth process of trees, wooden boards show a high amount of random
fluctuation in their mechanical properties. Currently, in engineering practice, a …

Bending strength predictions of cross-laminated timber plates subjected to concentrated loading using 3D finite-element-based limit analysis approaches

M Li, J Füssl, M Lukacevic, CM Martin… - Composite …, 2019 - Elsevier
Cross-laminated timber (CLT) is an innovative wood product with increasing utilisations. It is
well known that the orthotropic and inhomogeneous strength properties of wooden boards …

3D reconstruction of logs from board images

C Piskonen - 2022 - lutpub.lut.fi
Sawmills nowadays are heavily automated and especially sawing process optimisation
could improve overall yield of sawn timber. The main focus of this thesis work is to create a …

[PDF][PDF] Determination of global modulus of elasticity of timber by using fiber orientation and proportion of latewood

YJ Cheng, TY Kuo, WC Wang - CompWood, 2019 - open.lnu.se
Mechanical properties of timber depend on the fiber orientation, the percentage of latewood,
the distribution of knot, etc.[1-4]. However, the fiber orientation and the modulus of elasticity …

Experimental Investigation of the Elastic Modulus of Timber by Using Density and Fiber Orientation

WC Wang, TY Kuo - Proceedings of the Third International Conference on …, 2020 - Springer
Wood is a material found in nature with distinct applications in construction engineering. For
the sake of greenhouse gas emissions, wood has been widely used. Two essential factors …

[PDF][PDF] Strength prediction of the glulam beams based on the information of knots in single lamellas

L Bianchi, M Savoia, IJW van de Kuilen… - amslaurea.unibo.it
Wood is a natural material with irregularities, in particular knots, that affect the global
stiffness and strength. The peculiarity of this material is the impossibility of eliminating all …

Finite-element-based limit analysis for strength predictions of wood at different scales of observation and a novel algorithm for adaptive implementation of velocity …

M Li - 2018 - repositum.tuwien.at
Numerical limit analysis belongs to the field of computational plasticity and is mainly used to
predict load bearing capacities of engineering structures. In contrast to conventional …