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Experimental tests on a dowel-type timber connection and validation of numerical models

Lookup NU author(s): Dr Haoyu HuangORCiD

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© 2017 by the authors.This paper examines the dynamic behaviour of timber framed buildings under wind and dynamic loads, focusing on the role of connections being experimentally tested. The main aim of this manuscript is to analyze the in-service dynamic behaviour of a semi-rigid moment-resisting dowel-type connection between timber beam and column. For this purpose, two laboratory tests have been performed, the first on a connection and another one on a portal frame. The results are used to validate a numerical model of the simple portal frame, analyzed in OpenSees. The obtained relationships are also discussed and compared with Eurocode rules. The main result is that the joint stiffness is calculated through the Eurocode (EC) formulation underestimates the experimental one. A mutual agreement is obtained between the numerical model, validated from the experimental stiffness value for the connections, and the experimental results on the portal frame.

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Author(s): Solarino F, Giresini L, Chang W-S, Huang H

Publication type: Article

Publication status: Published

Journal: Buildings

Year: 2017

Volume: 7

Issue: 4

Print publication date: 05/12/2017

Online publication date: 05/12/2017

Acceptance date: 30/11/2017

Date deposited: 14/03/2022

ISSN (electronic): 2075-5309

Publisher: MDPI AG

URL: https://doi.org/10.3390/buildings7040116

DOI: 10.3390/buildings7040116

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