The shear strength and failure modes of timber joists obtained from the torsion test method.
Conference Proceeding
Khokhar, A. M., Zhang, H., & Ridley-Ellis, D. (2010)
The shear strength and failure modes of timber joists obtained from the torsion test method. In A. Ceccotti (Ed.), 11th World Conference on Timber Engineering 2010 (WTCTE 2010) (3509-3516
This paper presents details of the experimental method and test results from a series of torsion tests undertaken to evaluate the shear strength of timber joists. The failure...
Determination of shear strength of timber joists by torsion testing.
Conference Proceeding
Khokhar, A. M., Zhang, H. & Ridley-Ellis, D. (2009)
Determination of shear strength of timber joists by torsion testing. In Santos, J. A. (Ed.). Proceedings of COST E53 conference "Economic and Technical aspects of quality control for wood and wood products"ISBN 978-989-96428-1-2
This paper presents an experimental investigation in which the torsion testing approach was employed to evaluate the shear strength of Sitka spruce and Norway spruce joists. R...
Determining the Shear Modulus of Sitka Spruce from Torsion Tests
Conference Proceeding
Khokhar, A., Zhang, H., Ridley-Ellis, D. & Moore, J. (2008)
Determining the Shear Modulus of Sitka Spruce from Torsion Tests. In 10th World Conference on Timber Engineering 2008, 2137-2144. ISBN 9781615670888
This paper presents details of the experimental method, and preliminary results from, a series of torsion tests undertaken to evaluate the shear modulus of Sitka spruce (Picea...
Timber Plate Dynamics with Space-Time Finite Element
Journal Article
Zhang, H., Ridley-Ellis, D. & Hapca, A. I. (2006)
Timber Plate Dynamics with Space-Time Finite Element. Timber Engineering
A new space-time finite element formulation for dynamic analysis of timber plates is presented. The method is based on an unconventional Hamilton variational principle and a s...