《Experimental analysis on strength and failure modes of wood beam-column connections.》.pdf

Front．Struct．Civ．Eng．2014，8(3)：260269 DOI10．1007／sl1709—014-0261一Y Experimentalanalysisonstren handfailuremodesof woodbeam．columnC0nneCti0nS ZhenhuaHUANG ，SheldonQSHI，LipingCAI DeportmentofEngineeringTechnology,UniversityofNorthTexas，Denton，TX76210,USA Correspondingauthor．E-mail：zhenhua．huang@unt．edu ◎ HigherEducationPressandSpringer—VerlagBerlinHeidelberg2014 ABSTRACT Thisresearchexperimentallyexaminedthestrength，failuremodes，andbehaviorsofdowel—bearingand fiber-bearingwoodbeam．columnconnectionsandexploredtheeffectsofcyclicloadingonthestrength．failuremodes． andbehaviorsofthoseconnections．Baseonlimitednumbersofexploratorylaboratorytests(6preliminarytestsintota1)， theauthorsobservedthatthetypicalboltedconnection(dowel—bearingtypewoodbeam-columnconnectionwithfiber- bearingsurfaces)showedgoodbehavior(1argepeakmoment)underthemonotonicloads，andthetenonjointconnection (fiber—bearingwoodbeam—columnconnection、showedgoodbehaviorundercyclic1oads．Thecyclicpropertyofloading reducedthestrengthofthedowe1．bearingtypewoodbeam．columnconnections．butincreasedthestrength offiber- bearingytpewoodbeam—column connections．Moreimportantly,theauthorsidentifiedapossibleIocation ofsafety concem incurrentnationa1designspecifications(NDS)standardsforthetypicalboltedconnection(dowel—bearing connectionwithfiberbearingsurface1undercyclicloadingbecausethetestedvaluewassmallerthantheNDScalculated value．But．becauseofthesmal1amountoftestsconducted，nofinalconclusioncanbedrawnbasedonthosepreliminary observationsyet．A largenumberofrepetitivelaboratorytestsshouldbeconducted． KEYW ORDS wood，connection，dowel—bearing，fiber-bearing 1 Intr0duCti0n A greatnumberofstudiesregardingthewoodbeam— column rfamesandwood connectionshavebeen carried Thewoodbeam—column frameisacommonlyused outrecently．SongandLam [3]exploredthestability stm