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Simulating the serviceability of stressed-skin panels with changing boundary conditions - Finite element approach
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Simulating the serviceability of stressed-skin panels with changing boundary conditions - Finite element approach

Christophe Gerber, K Crews and C Sigrist
Proceedings of the 9th World Conference on Timber Engineering, pp.1792-1799
World Conference on Timber Engineering (WCTE), 9th (Portland, United States, 06-Aug-2006–10-Aug-2006)
Curran Associates Inc.
2006
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Manufacturing Engineering
Between 2002 and 2006, a major research and development project has been undertaken at the University of Technology, Sydney, to investigate and quantify the structural performance of stressed skin panel (SSP) floor systems. The project involved full-scale testing of 27 specimens, constructed in a variety of configurations and subjected to a series of non-destructive and destructive tests, which enabled identifying the serviceability and ultimate responses of SSP specimens. The responses of the laboratory specimens were estimated using the design guidelines of Eurocode 5 (EC5) [1] because of the absence of directive in the current edition of the Australian code, AS 1720.1-1997 [2]. This paper presents details of numerical approaches that were then subsequently developed to be capable of accurately predicting serviceability responses of SSP structures, using both finite element modelling and mathematical procedures.

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