RESEARCH ARTICLE
Composite Timber Panel Optimization for a New-type Cold-Formed Steel Shear Wall
Jun He1, Jing Li1, 2, *, Zhuoyang Xin1, Weian Jiang1
Article Information
Identifiers and Pagination:
Year: 2017Volume: 11
First Page: 255
Last Page: 273
Publisher ID: TOBCTJ-11-255
DOI: 10.2174/1874836801711010255
Article History:
Received Date: 29/03/2017Revision Received Date: 23/06/2017
Acceptance Date: 14/07/2017
Electronic publication date: 21/08/2017
Collection year: 2017
open-access license: This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International Public License (CC-BY 4.0), a copy of which is available at: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/legalcode. This license permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
Abstract
Background and Methods:
This paper illustrates a research on the behavior of the composite timber panels used in a new-type cold-formed steel shear wall, when subjected to monotonic and reversed cyclic in-plane loading. The framing members of this new-type cold-formed steel shear wall are made of cold-formed steels. The inner timber frameworks, sheathed with veneer plywood, form the composite timber panels.
Objective:
In order to improve the lateral performance of the new-type cold-formed steel shear wall, two different optimized composite timber panels were proposed and tested, namely, increasing the thickness of the sheathings and the addition of steel X-bracings. The main objective of the study is to determine the quantification of the improvement in lateral performance of these two optimized composite timber panels.
Results and Conclusion:
Observed failure modes, structural performance parameters and the data of the strain gauges were given for each specimen, which indicates two optimized panels both have better lateral performance. But larger deformation and damage of the sheathings happened on the panels with steel X-bracings, so the panels with thick sheathings are more suitable and practical for normal use.
