TIMBER DESIGN – CE 412

(FINAL TERM)
Enhanced by:
Engr. Alvin N.Deliro
Instructor
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OBJECTIVES:
The students will be able to:
1. Know and learn how to design timber for composite
beams in accordance with the national design
specification and the National Structural Code of the
Philippines.
2. To gain deeper knowledge on mechanics of materials
for timber, the structural analysis and design concepts/
principles which are applied to the real world
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Since the wood and the
steel are assumed to be
firmly bolted together, the
strains of the steel and the
wood fibers at A are equal
to es = ew.
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PROBLEM #1:
A timber beam shown has a simply supported
span of 3.5m that carries a uniform distributed
load of 46.5 kN/m. Allowable Stresses for steel
and wood are 124 Mpa and 8 Mpa respectively. If
the modular ratio of steel to timber is 20,
a. What is the maximum moment
acting on the beam?
b. What is the required thickness
of the steel plate if the
allowable stress of wood
controls?
c. What is the required thickness
of steel plate if the allowable stress
of steel controls?
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PROBLEM #2:
A timber beam 150mm wide by 250mm deep is to be reinforced at the
top and bottom by steel plates 10mm thick as shown. Assume n = 15, the
beam is to resist a moment of 40kn-m.
a. What is the width of the steel plates without exceeding the
stress in the woof of 10 MPa
b. What is the width of the
steel plates without exceeding
the stress in the steel of
120 MPa
c. What is the section modulus of
the composite beam?