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Proceedings of

8th International Conference on Advances in Civil, Structural and Mechanical Engineering CSM 2019

"MORPHOLOGICAL VARIATION OF STRENGTH IN SOLID TIMBER BEAM USING VOLUME INTEGRATION METHOD"

ELUEMUNOH O.O EZEAGU C.A
DOI
10.15224/978-1-63248-170-2-18
Pages
109 - 124
Authors
2
ISBN
978-1-63248-170-2

Abstract: “The work verifies the morphological variation of strength in various sizes of solid timber beam in order to ascertain their respective volumetric strength mode at the three (3) perpendicular directions. In this work, a mathematical tool known as Volume Integral was adopted to analyze the volumetric strength mode of timber in mutually perpendicular axes of three (3) batches (A, B & C) having five (5) different sizes of solid timber beam respectively and thereafter, morphological values generated were used in determination of ultimate bending strength assuming Ekki lophira alata, as the timber specie. The result of the analysis showed that increase in timber morphology increases the volumetric strength mode. Also that the maximum volumetric strength for all the sizes of the solid timber beam analyzed occurred at the tangential axis which is perpendicular to the grain direction and tangent to the growth ring (x-direction) followed by the volumetric strength of the radial axis which is als”

Keywords: Morphology, Strength, Timber, Beam, Principal Axes

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