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- Title
Behaviour of glued-laminated timber beams under impact loading.
- Authors
Wight, Nicole; Viau, Christian; Heffernan, Patrick
- Abstract
Short duration loads, such as impact loading, have the potential to generate catastrophic effects on infrastructure and loss of life. Although design provisions for engineered wood products are included in Canada's blast design standard, CSA S850, how these structural materials respond to blast and impact loads across a wide range of high strain rates has not been well documented. An experimental program was carried out using a newly established Drop Weight Impact Testing Facility to investigate the flexural behaviour of glued-laminated timber beams subjected to impact loading. High strain rates were generated, whereby the dynamic specimens were found to differ quantitatively and qualitatively from their quasi-static counterparts. Dynamic increase factors of 1.13 and 1.20 were observed on the peak resistance and initial stiffness, respectively. A single-degree-of-freedom model was developed and validated against the experimental test results, where it was found to accurately predict the displacement–time histories of the specimens until failure.
- Subjects
WOODEN beams; IMPACT loads; GLULAM (Wood); STRAIN rate; ENGINEERED wood; BLAST effect
- Publication
Canadian Journal of Civil Engineering, 2024, Vol 51, Issue 7, p753
- ISSN
0315-1468
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1139/cjce-2023-0298