CASE STUDY OF 3-PLY COMMERCIAL SOUTHERN PINE CLT MECHANICAL PROPERTIES AND DESIGN VALUES

This work elucidates on a case study of industrially manufactured cross-laminated timber (CLT). Two methods are used to calculate specimens section modulus: Sgross and Seffective. The first assumes that behave as continuous material, whereas the second considers cross laminations (shear analogy method). Although shear method is indicated for construction purposes, applications, such trench shoring, matting, platforms, could benefit from simpler calculation method. There- fore, theobjective this was conduct Modulus Rupture (MOR) Elasticity (MOE) southern pine CLT compare previously mentioned methods. Both parametric nonparametric fifth percentiles associated Fb values reported were substantially higher than those constituent lumber. For MOE, empirical testing based gross moment inertia provided lower compared with