Bending Reinforcement of Full-Scale Timber Beams with Mechanically Attached GFRP Composite Plates

Bending Analysis of Laminated Composite Plates with Arbitrary Boundary Conditions

It is well known that for laminated composite plates a Levy-type solution exists only for cross-ply and antisymmetric angle-ply laminates. Numerous investigators have used the Levy method to solve the governing equations of various equivalent single-layer plate theories. It is the intension of the present study to introduce a method for analytical solutions of laminated composite plates with ar...

Nonlinear bending models for beams and plates.

A new nonlinear model for large deflections of a beam is proposed. It comprises the Euler-Bernoulli boundary value problem for the deflection and a nonlinear integral condition. When bending does not alter the beam length, this condition guarantees that the deflected beam has the original length and fixes the horizontal displacement of the free end. The numerical results are in good agreement w...

System Effects Influencing the Bending Strength of Timber Beams

A stochastic model of hierarchical series system type for the bending strength of spruce beams is defined from the anticipation that the bending failure takes place at a cross-section with a defect cluster formed by knots or grain irregularities. The parameters of the model are estimated from measurements of the strengths of a large number of short test pieces cut from the beams such that judge...

Behavior of Composite Timber-Concrete Beam with CFRP Reinforcement

Bending Analysis of Composite Sandwich Plates with Laminated Face Sheets: New Finite Element Formulation

The bending behavior of composites sandwich plates with multi-layered laminated face sheets has been investigated, using a new four-nodded rectangular finite element formulation based on a layer-wise theory. Both, first order and higher-order shear deformation; theories are used in order to model the face sheets and the core, respectively. Unlike any other layer-wise theory, the number of degre...