Ultimate bending capacity evaluation of laminated bamboo lumber beams

发布时间:2018-01-10访问次数:0

篇名:Ultimate bending capacity evaluation of laminated bamboo lumber beams论文类型:SCI
刊名:Construction and Building Materials, 2018, 160: 365-375
作者:Haitao Li;Deeks A.J.发表时间:2018-01-10
关键词:Laminated bamboo;Tangential bending direction;Radial bending direction;Bending moment;DeflectionPDF文档:查看/下载
摘要:In order to evaluate the bending capacity of laminated bamboo lumber (LBL) beams, material perfor-mance tests and beam tests have been carried out. A strain-stress relationship is proposed based on com-pression and tensile tests conducted parallel to the grain. Two failure modes are identi?ed based on the locations of cracks in the beam specimens. Direction of bending and the location of internal joints are shown to in?uence the mechanical properties of LBL beams. Internal joints have more in?uence on spec-imens under tangential bending (where the culms are bent across their width) than that under radial bending (where the culms are bent across their thickness). Irrespective of the bending direction, the strain across the cross-section of the laminated bamboo beam is shown to be linear throughout the test process, following standard beam theory. Based on this theory and the proposed simpli?ed strain?stress relationship for the beam, calculation approaches for the ultimate bending moment and ultimate bending de?ection are proposed for three bending failure modes which give a good agreement with the test results.