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Material Type: Notes; Professor: Nichols; Class: ARCHITECTURAL STRUCTURES; Subject: ARCHITECTURE; University: Texas A&M University; Term: Unknown 1989;
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Wood Columns 1Lecture 16
Foundations Structures
ARCH 331
FOUNDATIONS
S^ TRUCTURES
:
FORM,
B
EHAVIOR, AND
D
ESIGN
ARCH 331DR.
A
NNE
N
ICHOLS
SPRING 2009
lecture
Wood Columns 2Lecture 16
Foundations Structures
ARCH 331
designed for strength & stresses
-^
designed for serviceability & deflection
-^
need to design for stability^ –^
ability to support aspecified loadwithout sudden orunacceptabledeformations
Wood Columns 4Lecture 16
Foundations Structures
ARCH 331
when a column gets stubby, crushing will limitthe load
-^
real world has loadswith eccentricity
Wood Columns 5Lecture 16
Foundations Structures
ARCH 331
bracing affects shape of bucklein one direction
-^
both should be checked!
Wood Columns 7Lecture 16
Foundations Structures
ARCH 331
where:
Fc
= compressive strength
parallel to grain CD
= load duration factor CM
= wet service factor (1.0 dry) Ct
= temperature factor CF
= size factor C^ p
= column stability factor
(^
)(^
)(^
)(^
)(^
) p
F t M D c c^
(Table 10.3)
Wood Columns 8Lecture 16
Foundations Structures
ARCH 331
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wood properties and load duration, C
D
-^ short duration -^
higher loads
-^ normal duration -^ > 10 years -^
stability, C
p
-^ combination curve - tables
(^
)^
p D c
p c c^
Wood Columns 10Lecture 16
Foundations Structures
ARCH 331
Wood Columns 11Lecture 16
Foundations Structures
ARCH 331
calculate L
/de^
min
-^
KL/d each axis, choose largest
obtain F´
c
-^
compute •^
K^ cE
=0.3 sawn
-^
K^ cE
= 0.418 glu-lam
compute F
F^ c
calculate F
cE
*^ c and get C
(Table 14)p^
calculate
(^
(^2) ) d cE L
cE^
e
E K
F^
=
p c c^
Wood Columns 13Lecture 16
Foundations Structures
ARCH 331
guess a size (pick a section)
calculate L
/de^
min
-^
KL/d each axis, choose largest
obtain F´
c
-^
compute •^
K^ cE
=0.3 sawn
-^
K^ cE
= 0.418 glu-lam
compute F
F^ c
calculate F
cE
*^ c and get C
(Table 14)p^
(^
(^2) ) d cE L
cE^
e
E K
F^
=
Wood Columns 14Lecture 16
Foundations Structures
ARCH 331
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compute
compute P
allowable
-^
or find f
actual
= P/A
is P
P^ allowable
? (or f
actual
?)c
-^
yes: OK
-^
no: pick a bigger section and
go back to step 2
.
p c c^
Wood Columns 16Lecture 16
Foundations Structures
ARCH 331
satisfy^ –
strength – stability
-^
pick^ –
section
Wood Columns 17Lecture 16
Foundations Structures
ARCH 331
Wood
[] term – magnification factor for P-
Δ
F’ bx^
(^0). 1
1
2
≤ ⎤ ⎥⎦
⎡ ⎢⎣
− ′
⎤ ⎥ ⎦ ⎡ ⎢ ⎣
′
cEx c
bx
bx
c c
F f
F
f
f F
Wood Columns 19Lecture 16
Foundations Structures
ARCH 331
two & three hingedarches
-^
bent to wide range ofcurves
-^
bending andcompression
-^
residual stress fromlaminating, C
c
Wood Columns 20Lecture 16
Foundations Structures
ARCH 331
radius of curvature, R, limited by lamthickness, t^ –
R = 100t – southern pine & hardwoods – R = 125t – softwood
-^
r = radius to inside faceof laminations
Fb
(Cb
)c
2
C^