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World Conference on Timber
Engineering 2012 (WCTE 2012)

Timber Engineering
Challenges and Solutions

Auckland, New Zealand

15-19 July 2012

Volume 1 of 5

Editors:

Pierre Quenneville

ISBN: 978-1-62276-305-4
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Session 1, Materials 1

Noriko Takiyama, Yasuhiro Hayashi, Jiao Jian, Kazutaka Namie, Takuya Matsumoto
MATERIAL CHARACTERISTICS ESTIMATION OF EXISTING WOODEN STRUCTURES BY NON-
DESTRUCTIVE TESTS 12

Wolfgang Gard, Hanna Kuisch, Jan-Willem van de Kuilen

BRITTLEHEART AS A CRITICAL FEATURE FOR VISUAL STRENGTH GRADING OF
TROPICAL HARDWOOD –APPROACH OF DETECTION 20

Gary Raftery, Conor Whelan, Annette Harte

BONDED-IN GFRP RODS FOR THE REPAIR OF GLUED LAMINATED TIMBER 30

Wan Hazira Wan Mohamad, Zakiah Ahmad, Tan Yu Eng, Ashari Abd. Jalil
BENDING STRENGTH OF GLULAM FROM SELECTED MALAYSIAN HARDWOOD TIMBER 40

Olli Paajanen, Matti Kairi

RESULTS FROM EXPERIMENTS WITH A NEW VENEER CONTACT DRYING TECHNOLOGY 46

Session 2, Factors 1

Cecile Grazide, Alain Cointe, Jean-Luc Coureau, Stephane Morel

THE INFLUENCE OF HETEROGENEITIES ON THE BENDING STRENGTH OF TIMBER 53

Gordian Stapf, Simon Aicher

TESTING AND DESIGN OF WOODEN PILE FOUNDATIONS – GENERAL AND CASE STUDY 61

Adriano Ballarin, Pedro Almeida, Hernando Lara Palma

ESTIMATING HARDNESS OF EUCALYPTUS WOOD WITH A PORTABLE HARDNESS TESTER 71

Pablo Guindos, Manuel Guaita

THE ANALYTICAL 3D INFLUENCE OF ALL TYPES OF KNOTS IN BENDING 75

Roland Maderebner, Anton Kraler, Wilfried Konrad Beikircher, Michael Flach

INFLUENCE ON MEASURING RESULTS BY KNOTTINESS OF ULTRASOUND MEASUREMENTS
OF BENDING STRESS-SECTION SPRUCE WOOD BEAMS 83

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Session 3, Design 1

Simon Aicher, Cristobal Tapia

GLULAM WITH LATERALLY REINFORCED RECTANGULAR HOLES 92

Kento Suzuki, Hiroyasu Sakata, Yoshihiro Yamazaki

SEISMIC RESPONSE EVALUATION OF MULTI-STORY TIMBER HOUSES WITH ECCENTRICITY 101

Jan-Willem van de Kuilen, Wolfgang Gard

RESIDUAL SERVICE LIFE ESTIMATION USING DAMAGE ACCUMULATION MODELS 109

Leandro Dussarrat Brito, Carlito Calil Junior

MAIN TYPES OF STRUCTURAL SYSTEMS AND CONSTRUCTION WITH USING ROUNDWOOD
FROM REFORESTATION IN BRAZIL 117

Alireza Fadai, Wolfgang Winter, Michaela Gruber

WOOD BASED CONSTRUCTION FOR MULTI-STOREY BUILDINGS. THE POTENTIAL OF
CEMENT BONDED WOOD COMPOSITES AS STRUCTURAL SANDWICH PANELS 125

Session 4, Connections 1

Mohammed Hashim Abukari, Maxime Coté, Colin A. Rogers, Alexander Salenikovich

WITHDRAWAL RESISTANCE OF STRUCTURAL SCREWS IN CANADIAN GLUED
LAMINATED TIMBER 134

Pouyan Zarnani, Pierre Quenneville

PREDICTVE ANALYTICAL MODEL FOR WOOD CAPACITY OF RIVET CONNECTIONS IN
GLULAM AND LVL 144

Thomas M. Gorman, David E Kretschmann, Marshall Begel, Sarah Fishwild, Richard Shilts, Timothy C. Nelson
ASSESSING THE CAPACITY OF THREE TYPES OF ROUND-WOOD CONNECTIONS 154

Carmen Sandhaas, Jan-Willem van de Kuilen, Hans Joachim Blass

CONSTITUTIVE MODEL FOR WOOD BASED ON CONTINUUM DAMAGE MECHANICS 159

Jonathan Skinner, Richard Harris, Kevin Paine, Peter Walker, Julie Bregulla
THE CHARACTERISATION OF CONNECTORS FOR THE UPGRADE OF TIMBER FLOORS
WITH THIN STRUCTURAL TOPPINGS 168

Session 5, Design 2

Jan Weckendorf, Ian Smith

DYNAMIC CHARACTERISTICS OF SHALLOW FLOORS WITH CROSS-LAMINATED-TIMBER
SPINES
176
Geir Glasø, Kristine Nore
SHEAR STHRENGTH OF CROSS LAMINATED TIMBER (CLT) WITH INTEGRATED
ACOUSTIC PROPERTIES 186

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Felix Scheibmair, Pierre Quenneville
THE QUICK CONNECT MOMENT CONNECTION FOR PORTAL FRAME BUILDINGS – AN
INTRODUCTION AND CASE STUDY 192

André Jorissen, Johnny van Rie, Wim de Groot, Rianne Luimes

SANDWICH STRUCTURES WITH WOOD BASED FACES 202

Maurice Brunner, Martin Lehmann

BENDING TESTS ON THE CONTINUOUS GLULAM BEAM 211

Session 6, Connections 2

Zhao-hui Wang, Ke-zhen Liu, Hai-qing Ren, Zhonghua Huang, Haidong Li, Gang Zhang
CONNECTIONS DESIGN AND ITS LOAD-CARRYING CAPACITY FOR POST AND BEAM
JOINTS OF LARCH GLULAM 217

Kay-Uwe Schober, Wieland Becker, Michael Drass

ADVANCED INTERFACE INTERACTION IN TIMBER ENGINEERING JOINTS WITH DOWEL-TYPE
FASTENERS EMBEDDED IN HIGH-PERFORMANCE CERAMIC FILLERS 222

Pål Ellingsbø, Kjell Arne Malo

WITHDRAWAL CAPACITY OF LONG SELF-TAPPING SCREWS PARALELL TO GRAIN
DIRECTION 228

Enchun Zhu1, Zhiyong Chen, Jinglong Pan, Frank Lam

STRUCTURAL PERFORMANCE OF DOU-GONG BRACKETS OF YINGXIAN WOOD PAGODA
UNDER VERTICAL LOADING 238

Leandro Dussarrat Brito, Carlito Calil Junior

TYPES OF CONNECTIONS FOR STRUCTURAL ELEMENTS ROUNDWOOD USED IN BRAZIL 244

Session 7, Materials 2

João H. Negrão
PRESTRESSING SYSTEMS FOR TIMBER BEAMS 252

Eric Fournely, Rostand Moutou Pitti, Abdelhamid Bouchair

BEHAVIOUR OF TIMBER LATTICE BEAM WITH SEMI-RIGID JOINTS 262

Gerhard Fink, Jochen Kohler, Andrea Frangi

EXPERIMENTAL ANALYSIS OF THE DEFORMATION AND FAILURE BEHAVIOUR OF
SIGNIFICANT KNOT CLUSTERS 270

Christophe Sigrist, Stephanie Willemin

AN INTEGRAL PRODUCTION CHAIN TO RELIABLY PRODUCE GLUED LAMINATED TIMBER 280

Christopher Gross, Richard Harris, Ian Pritchett, Peter Walker

STRUCTURAL ENHANCEMENT OF TIMBER STUD FRAMING USING RENEWABLE INSULATION
MATERIALS 287

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Session 8, Factors 2

Eva Frühwald Hansson, Christian Brischke, Linda Meyer, Tord Isaksson, Sven Thelandersson, Denis Kavurmaci
DURABILITY OF TIMBER OUTDOOR STRUCTURES – MODELLING PERFORMANCE
AND CLIMATE IMPACTS 295

Nima Hkorsandnia, Hamid R. Valipour, Christophe Gerber, Rijun Shrestha, Keith Crews
COMPARATIVE STUDY ON ANALYTICAL MODELLING OF SHORT AND LONG TERM
BEHAVIOUR IN TIMBER-CONCRETE COMPOSITE SYSTEMS 304

Vijaya Gopu, Richard Avent,

EFFECT OF INCIPIENT DECAY ON STRENGTH AND STIFFNESS OF TIMBER PILES 313

Reiner Hofmann, Ulrike Kuhlmann

REDUCED RESISTANCE OF SLENDER GLUED LAMINATED TIMBER GIRDERS ON
LATERAL TORSIONAL BUCKLING DUE TO CREEP EFFECTS 320

Shiro Nakajima, Tomohiro Shimizu, Hideki Matsumoto, Yukio Tsujimura, Akira Seino, Masao Nakajima, Kenji
Motohashi
EVALUATION OF STRENGTH PROPERIES OF SHEAR WALLS WITH DETERIORATED
COMPOSING MEMBERS 328

Session 9, Design 3

Joo-Saeng Park, Kweon-Hwan Hwang, Gi-Young Jeong

EFFECT OF STIFFNESS REINFORCEMENT ON INSULATION PERFORMANCE AGAINST
IMPACT SOUND IN TIMBER FRAMED FLOOR 336

Hannah Pearson, Mark Evernden, Richard Harris

ANALYSIS OF ENGINEERED TIMBER PANELS FOR USE IN FOLDED PLATE STRUCTURES 344

Wouter van Beerschoten, Alessandro Palermo, David Carradine, Stefano Pampanin

DESIGN PROCEDURE FOR LONG-SPAN POST-TENSIONED TIMBER FRAMES UNDER
GRAVITY LOADING 354

Aamir Khokhar, Ying Chui, Ian Smith

INFLUENCE OF STIFFNESS OF BETWEEN-JOISTS BRACING ON VIBRATIONAL
SERVICEABILITY OF WOOD FLOORS 362

Saúl A. Hernández Maldonado, Ying-Hei Chui

VIBRATIONAL PERFORMANCE OF CROSS LAMINATED TIMBER FLOORS 370

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Session 10, Connections 3

Hideaki Tanahashi, Yoshiyuki Suzuki

BASIC CONCEPT AND GENERAL FORMULATION OF RESTORING FORCE CHARACTERISTICS OF
TRADITIONAL WOODEN JOINTS 378

Joergen L. Jensen, Ulf Arne Girhammar, Pierre Quenneville, Bo Källsner

SPLITTING OF BEAMS LOADED PERPENDICULAR TO GRAIN BY CONNECTIONS– SIMPLE
FRACTURE MECHANICS MODELS 388

Johannes Schneider, Siegfried F. Stiemer, Solomon Tesfamariam, Erol Karacabeyli, Marjan Popovski
DAMAGE ASSESSMENT OF CROSS LAMINATED TIMBER CONNECTIONS SUBJECTED TO
SIMULATED EARTHQUAKE LOADS 398

Bettina Franke, Pierre Quenneville

PREDICTION OF THE LOAD CAPACITY OF DOWEL-TYPE CONNECTIONS LOADED
PERPENDICULAR TO GRAIN FOR SOLID WOOD AND WOOD PRODUCTS 407

Shoichi Nakashima, Akihisa Kitamori, Takuro Mori, Kohei Komatsu

EVALUATION OF TENSILE PERFORMANCE OF DRIFT PIN JOINT OF CROSS LAMINATED TIMBER
WITH STEEL INSERTED PLATE 417

Session 11, Design 4

Jose-María Velasco, Manuel García, Kiyan Hedjri, Miguel-Angel Abian, Toni Gomila
AIDIMA R&D FORUM BUILDING IN PATERNA-VALENCIA, SPAIN. NEW TIMBER DESIGNS 425

Martin Lehmann, Till Vallée, Karl Rautenstrauch

TESTING AND MODELLING OF PRESTRESSED TIMBER BEAMS USING A MULTI SURFACE
PLASTICITY MODEL 430

Weichiang Pang, Seyed Masood Hassanzadeh Shirazi

STOCHASTIC RESPONSE OF LIGHT-FRAME WOOD BUILDINGS UNDER
EARTHQUAKE LOADING 436

Carlito Calil Neto, Francisco Antonio Rocco Lahr, Carlito Calil Júnior
SPECIE – TREATMENT - ADHESIVE COMBINATIONS USING 3 BRAZILIAN REFORESTATION
SPECIES, 3 PRESERVATIVE TREATMENTS AND 2 ADHESIVES FOR GLULAM PURPOSE 442

A. Lavalette, P. Castéra, R. Pommier, M. Danis, C. Delisée, H. Wargnier

ANISOTROPIC FAILURE CRITERION FOR A WOOD/FLAX COMPOSITE, AS RELATED TO ITS
MICROSTRUCTURE 449

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Session 12, Connections 4

Alfredo Manuel Pereira Geraldes Dias , Carlos Eduardo de Jesus Martins

MECHANICAL PERFORMANCE OF A NEW, MORE ENVIROMENTALLY FRIENDLY, TIMBER-
CONCRETE CONNECTION 457

Per-Anders Daerga, Ulf Arne Girhammar, Bo Källsner

SUSPENDED FLOOR ELEMENT CONNECTIONS FOR THE MASONITE FLEXIBLE
BUILDING SYSTEM 465

Antoine Cousin, Alexander Salenikovich

RATE OF LOADING AND MOISTURE EFFECTS ON DOWEL BEARING STRENGTH 473

Mario Marra, Martino Negri, Stefano Guercini, Ario Ceccotti

ASSESSMENT PROCESS OF A NEW STRUCTURAL PUR ADHESIVE 482

Session 13, Materials 3

Markus Knorz, Jan-Willem van de Kuilen

DEVELOPMENT OF A HIGH-CAPACITY ENGINEERED WOOD PRODUCT - LVL MADE
OF EUROPEAN BEECH 487

David Crawford, Robert Hairstans, John Alexander, Ferry Bongers

ASSESSMENT OF STRUCTURAL PERFORMANCE OF ACCOYA® WOOD FOR GLULAM
FABRICATION 496

Dave Smedley, Joel Tiew, Adlin Roseley, Zakiah Ahmad, Martin P. Ansell
INNOVATIVE TIMBER EXHIBITION HALL IN JOHOR, MALAYSIA, CONSTRUCTED FROM
INDIGENOUS HARDWOOD USING BONDED IN MOMENT-RESISTING CONNECTIONS 502

Jurij Jancar, Bruno Dujic, Miroslav Premrov

SEISMIC RESPONSE OF BUILDINGS UPGRADED WITH THE X-LAM TIMBER SUPERSTRUCTURE 504

Martino Negri, Igor Gavrić, Mario Marra, Marco Fellin, Ignazia Cuccui, Ario Ceccotti
USING LOW QUALITY TIMBER FOR X-LAM: RAW MATERIAL CHARACTERISATION AND
STRUCTURAL PERFORMANCES OF WALLS UNDER SEMI-DYNAMIC SOLICITATIONS 511

Session 14, Design 5

Petr Kuklík, Pavel Nechanický, Anna Kuklíková

DEVELOPMENT OF PREFABRICATED TIMBER-CONCRETE COMPOSITE FLOORS 519

Xiaobin Song, Rui Jiang, Weiping Zhang, Xianglin Gu4, Lie Luo
COMPRESSIVE BEHAVIOR OF LONGITUDINALLY CRACKED WOOD COLUMNS RETROFITTED
BY SELF-TAPPING SCREWS 527

A.J.M. Leijten, A.J.M. Jorissen, J.C.D. Hoenderkamp

INFILL PANELS AND THE TUBE CONNECTION IN TIMBER FRAMES 533

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Manoochehr Ardalany, Massimo Fragiacomo, Bruce Deam, Andrew Buchanan
DESIGN OF REINFORCEMENT AROUND HOLES IN LAMINATED VENEER LUMBER (LVL)
BEAMS 539

Stefan Jaksch, Alireza Fadai, Wolfgang Winter

FOLDED CLT STRUCTURES – DEVELOPMENTS IN DESIGN AND ASSEMBLY STRATEGIES 548

Session 15, Connections 5

Thomas Tannert, Nicolas Keller, Roman Frei, Till Vallée

IMPROVED PERFORMANCE OF ROUNDED DOVETAIL JOINTS 552

Lars Eisenhut, Heiko Koch, Werner Seim

THE TAPERED TENON - EXPERIMENTAL RESEARCH AND NUMERICAL MODELLING 558

Thomas Reynolds, Richard Harris, Wen-Shao Chang

DYNAMIC STIFFNESS AND DAMPING OF DOWEL-TYPE CONNECTIONS FOR TIMBER
STRUCTURES UNDER SERVICE CONDITIONS 566

Gi Young Jeong, Moon-Jae Park, KweonHwan Hwang, Joo-Saeng Park

EFFECTS OF GEOMETRY ON MECHANICAL BEHAVIOR OF DOVETAIL CONNECTION 574

Hideyuki Nasu, Masahiko Katabami, Toru Katagiri, Hiroyuki Noguchi

STUDIES ON TENSILE STRENGTH OF LARGE DIAMETER SCREW BOLTS WITH
DIFFERENT SHAPES 582

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World Conference on Timber
Engineering 2012 (WCTE 2012)

Strength and Serviceability –

Extreme Events

Auckland, New Zealand

15-19 July 2012

Volume 2 of 5

Editors:

Pierre Quenneville

ISBN: 978-1-62276-305-4
Content

Session 16, Design 7

Mina Sugino, Noriko Takiyama, Yasuhiro Hayashi

MAXIMUM RESPONSE EVALUATION OF TRADITIONAL WOODEN BUILDINGS BASED ON
AMPLITUDE DEPENDENCY OF VIBRATION CHARACTERISTICS 12

Myriam Chaplain, Denys Breysse, Antoine Marache

LIFETIME OF TIMBER NOTCHED BEAMS UNDER SEVERAL RANDOM MODELLING
OF FRENCH CLIMATES 20

Thanh Kien Vu, Sebastian Fuentes, Eric Fournely, Hamid Bouchair, Rostand Moutou Pitti
USUAL TIMBER STRUCTURES UNDER SEISMIC ACTIONS – TORSION INCIDENCE 28

Massimo Fragiacomo, Agnese Menis, Isaia Clemente, Giovanna Bochicchio, Barbara Tessadri
EXPERIMENTAL AND NUMERICAL BEHAVIOUR OF CROSSLAMINATED
TIMBER FLOORS IN FIRE CONDITIONS 36

Felice Carlo Ponzo, Tobias Smith, Antonio Di Cesare, Stefano Pampanin, David Carradine, Domenico Nigro
SHAKING TABLE TEST OF A MULTISTOREY POSTTENSIONED GLULAM BUILDING:
DESIGN AND CONSTRUCTION 44

Session 17, Engineering Technical Issues 1

M. Pilar Giraldo, Jaume Avellaneda, Ana M. Lacasta, Vladimir Rodríguez

COMPUTER-SIMULATION RESEARCH ON BUILDING-FAÇADE GEOMETRY FOR FIRE SPREAD
CONTROL IN BUILDINGS WITH WOOD CLADDINGS 53

Norman Werther, Michael Merk, René Stein, Stefan Winter

FIRE SAFE SERVICE INSTALLATIONS IN TIMBER BUILDINGS 61

Toshiro Harada, Atsushi Miyatake, Daisuke Kamikawa, Yasushi Hiramatsu, Akio Inoue, Yasunori Hatano
FIRE RESISTANCE OF GLUED LAMINATED TIMBER BONDED WITH RF, API, OR PVAc RESIN 70

Kevin Cheung, Donald DeVisser, Bill Galligan

DESIGN PROPERTY ASSESSMENT OF SINGLE MEMBERS IN EXISTING STRUCTURES –
NDE CHALLENGE 78

Christophe Sigrist, Martin Lehmann

DEVELOPMENT OF A CROSS LAMINATED, POST TENSIONED BRIDGE DECK 83

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Session 18, Lateral-load Resisting Systems 1

Minoru Okabe, Motoi Yasumura, Kenji Kobayashi, Takeshi Haramiishi, Yo Nakashima, Kazuhiko Fujita
EFFECT OF VERTICAL LOAD UNDER CYCLIC LATERAL LOAD TEST FOR
EVALUATING SUGI CLT WALL PANEL 89

Kenji Kobayashi, Motoi Yasumura, Takahiro Tsuchimoto

INFLUENCE OF LOADING PROTOCOL ON SHEAR RESISTANCE OF PLYWOOD SHEATHED
SHEAR WALLS WITH SCREWED JOINTS 97

Maria Cristina Forlani, Donatella Radogna, Alberto Viskovic

WOODEN STRUCTURES FOR THE RETROFITTING, RECOVERY AND REUSE OF MASONRY
BUILDINGS SEVERELY DAMAGED BY THE AQUILA EARTHQUAKE OF 6 APRIL 2009.
A PILOT PROJECT IN CAPORCIANO 105

Weichiang Pang, Ershad Ziaei, Andre Filiatrault

A 3D MODEL FOR COLLAPSE ANALYSIS OF SOFT-STORY LIGHT-FRAME WOOD BUILDINGS 113

Takafumi Nakagawa, Tatsuya Miyake, Hiroshi Isoda, Naohito Kawai, Takahiro Tsuchimoto
COLLAPSING ANALYSIS OF SHAKE TABLE TESTS OF THREE STORY POST-AND-BEAM
WOOD HOUSES 121

Session 19, Connections 7

Farzad Moshiri, Chris Garven, Christophe Gerber, Hamid R. Valipour, Rijun Shrestha, Keith Crews
AN INVESTIGATION ON TCC JOINTS USING EXPANDED POLYSTYRENE LIGHT-WEIGHT
CONCRETE 130

Frank Brühl, Ulrike Kuhlmann

CONNECTION DUCTILITY IN TIMBER STRUCTURES CONSIDERING THE
MOMENT-ROTATION BEHAVIOR 136

Igor Gavric, Massimo Fragiacomo, Ario Ceccotti

STRENGTH AND DEFORMATION CHARACTERISTICS OF TYPICAL X-LAM CONNECTIONS 146

Kohei Komatsu, Shouichi Nakashima, Akihisa Kitamori

DEVELOPMENT OF DUCTILE MOMENT-RESISTING JOINT BASED ON A NEW IDEA FOR GLULAM
PORTAL FRAME STRUCTURES 156

Toshiaki Sato, Kaori Fujita

STRESS ANALYSIS OF TIMBER IN CONSIDERATION OF DESTRUCTION BEHAVIOUR -
NUMERICAL METHOD BASED ON DISTINCT ELEMENT METHOD AND VERIFICATION
WITH MATERIAL TESTS 162

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Session 20, Design 8

John W. van de Lindt, David V. Rosowsky, Weichiang Pang, Shiling Pei

PERFORMANCE-BASED SEISMIC DESIGN OF MID-RISE LIGHT-FRAME WOOD BUILDINGS 170

Naresworo Nugroho, Zulhijah, Devi Ardiansyah, Maryoko Hadi

SHEAR WALL TEST OF BAMBOO SANDWICH PANEL WITH VARIOUS TYPE OF BRACING 177

Wei Yuen Loo, Pierre Quenneville, Nawawi Chouw

DESIGN AND NUMERICAL VERIFICATION OF A MULTISTOREY TIMBER SHEAR WALL WITH
SLIP-FRICTION CONNECTORS 179

Anton Kraler, Wilfried Beikircher, Philipp Zingerle

STRENGTH DETERMINATION OF AGED WOOD, FROM 1250AD TO PRESENT, WITH NON-
DESTRUCTIVE AND SEMIDESTRUCTIVE TEST METHODS 188

Jan Weckendorf, Ian Smith

MULTI-FUNCTIONAL INTERFACE CONCEPT FOR HIGHRISE HYBRID BUILDING SYSTEMS
WITH STRUCTURAL TIMBER 192

Session 21, Fire 1

Lei Peng, Peifang Qiu, Zhaopeng Ni, Tingquan Liu, Haiyan Zhang
FIRE PROTECTION DESIGN OF THE FIRST 4-STOREY WOOD-FRAME CONSTRUCTION
IN CHINA 198

Alar Just, Joachim Schmid

EFFECT OF MINERAL WOOL INSULATIONS ON CHARRING OF TIMBER MEMBERS 203

Saeko Ikeda, Yuji Hasemi, Noboru Yasui, Hiroki Nagamori, Takahiro Sakata, Yuko Kawagoe, Masahide Murakami,
Naohito Kawai, Makoto Yamada, Seiji Kobata, Hidemi Kamiya
TECHNICAL DEVELOPMENT OF SIMULTANEOUS SEISMIC AND FIRE-PROTECTIVE
REINFORCEMENT OF EXISTING WOODEN BUILDING IN DENSELY INHABITED AREA 210

James O’Neill, Anthony Abu, David Carradine, Peter Moss, Andrew Buchanan
MODELLING PREFABRICATED TIMBER FLOORS IN FIRE 218

Session 22, Design 9

Phillip Spellman, David Carradine, Anthony Abu, Peter Moss, Andrew Buchanan
FULL-SCALE FIRE TESTS OF POST-TENSIONED TIMBER BEAMS 227

John W. van de Lindt, Michael D. Symans, Weichiang Pang, Xiaoyun Shao, Mikhail Gershfeld
SEISMIC RISK REDUCTION FOR SOFT-STORY WOODFRAME BUILDINGS: THE NEES-SOFT
PROJECT 237

Shiling Pei, Marjan Popovski, John W. van de Lindt

SEISMIC DESIGN OF A MULTI-STORY CROSS LAMINATED TIMBER BUILDING BASED ON
COMPONENT LEVEL TESTING 244

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David Carradine, Tobias Smith, Ben Carter, Stefano Pampanin, Alessandro Palermo, Felice Carlo Ponzo, Andrew
Buchanan
STUDY OF A HIGH PERFORMANCE TIMBER BUILDING: DESIGN, CONSTRUCTION AND
PERFORMANCE 253

Tiziano Sartori, Daniele Casagrande, Roberto Tomasi, Maurizio Piazza

SHAKE TABLE TEST ON 3-STOREY LIGHT-FRAME TIMBER BUILDING 262

Session 23, Engineering Technical Issues 2

Lin Hu, Sylvain Gagnon

CONTROLLING CROSS-LAMINATED TIMBER (CLT) FLOOR VIBRATIONS: FUNDAMENTALS
AND METHOD 269

Douglas Gaunt
A REVOLUTION IN STRUCTURAL TIMBER GRADING 276

Jose L. Fernandez-Cabo, Marina Arce-Blanco, Rafael Diez-Barra, Pedro A. Hurtado-Valdez

THEORETICAL AND EXPERIMENTAL STRUCTURAL STUDIES OF HISTORICAL
LATIN-AMERICAN LAMINATED PLANKED TIMBER ARCHES 284

Christian Dagenais, Richard Desjardins

CASES STUDIES OF PERFORMANCE-BASED DESIGN FOR MID-RISE WOOD CONSTRUCTIONS
IN QUEBEC (CANADA) 293

Anton Kraler, Wilfried Beikircher, Philipp Zingerle

SUITABILITY OF DRILL RESISTANCE MEASUREMENTS FOR DENDROCHRONOLOGICAL
DETERMINATION 302

Session 24, Lateral-load Resisting Systems 2

Natalino Gattesco, Allen Dudine, Rita Franceschinis

EXPERIMENTAL INVESTIGATION ON THE SEISMIC BEHAVIOR OF TIMBER SHEAR WALLS
WITH PARTICLE BOARDS 310

Hiroshi Isoda, YenHsiao Lin, Hidemaru Shimizu, Fuminobu Ozaki, Yoshimichi Kawai
SHAKING TABLE TEST OF ROCKING SYSTEM FOR JAPANESE WOOD HOUSE BOARDS 319

Naohito Kawai
ANALYTICAL STUDY ON SEISMIC BEHAVIOIR OF TRADITIONAL WOOD HOUSES
CONSIDERING SLIDING AT COLUMN BOTTOM 327

Marjan Popovski, Erol Karacabeyli

SEISMIC BEHAVIOUR OF CROSS-LAMINATED TIMBER STRUCTURES 335

Mitsuhiro Miyamoto, Akihisa Kitamori, Toshikazu Inoue, Kohei Komatsu

FULL-SCALE LATERAL SHEAR TEST OF HANGING WALL FOR TRADITIONAL
WOODEN BUILDING 345

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Session 25, Connections 8

Minh N. Nguyen, Xiaoming Wang, Robert H. Leicester

CLIMATE CHANGE IMPACTS ON CORROSION OF METAL FASTENERS IN TIMBER
CONSTRUCTION 353

Sigurdur Ormarsson, Mette Blond

AN IMPROVED METHOD FOR CALCULATING FORCE DISTRIBUTIONS IN MOMENT-STIFF
TIMBER CONNECTIONS 361

Mamoon Jamil, Pierre Quenneville, Charles Clifton

LOW-DAMAGE MOMENT RESISTING TIMBER MULTI-STOREY BUILDINGS 367

Motoi Yasumura, Julien Baroth, Kenji Kobayashi

DETERMINATION OF FAILURE MODE OF TIMBER JOINTS BY MONTE CARLO SIMULATION 377

Tobias Smith, Felice Carlo Ponzo, Antonio Di Cesare, Gianluca Auletta, Stefano Pampanin, David
Carradine, Alessandro Palermo, Domenico Nigro
SEISMIC PERFORMANCE OF A POST-TENSIONED GLUE LAMINATED BEAM TO COLUMN JOINT:
EXPERIMENTAL AND NUMERICAL RESULTS 385

Session 26, Design 10

Nobuyoshi Yamaguchi, Hideki Matsumoto, Toshihide Kashima

SEISMIC BEHAVIOUR OF A FOUR STORY WOOD FRAME CONSTRUCTION DURING M9.0
THE 2011 OFF THE PACIFIC COAST OF TOHOKU EARTHQUAKE 394

Lina Zhou, Zhiyong Chen, Ying Hei Chui, Chun Ni , Andi Asiz
SEISMIC PERFORMANCE OF MID-RISE LIGHT WOOD 402

Yasushi Niitsu, Masahiro Matsuda, Toshikazu Hanazato, Chikahiro Minowa

NATIONAL HERITAGE FIVE STORY WOODEN PAGODA RESPONSE IN 2011 EAST JAPAN
GREAT EARTHQUAKE 411

Massimo Fragiacomo, Claudio Amadio, Ljuba Sancin, Giovanni Rinaldin

SEISMIC ANALYSIS OF A LIGHT-FRAME TIMBER BUILDING WITH AND WITHOUT FRICTION
PENDULUM BASE ISOLATION 420

Yoichi Mukai, Miki Yonezawa, Mikio Koshihara, Yukio Saito, Yoshiyuki Suzuki
NUMERICAL MODELING OF TRADITIONAL JAPANESE WOODEN STRUCTURES BASED ON
FULL-SCALE SHAKINGTABLE TEST RESULTS 429

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Session 27, Engineering Case Studies 1

Tatsuya Miyake, Takahiro Tsuchimoto, Hiroshi Isoda, Naohito Kawai

OPTIMUM SEISMIC STRENGTH OF POST-AND-BEAM WOOD HOUSE DEPENDING ON
OCCPATION PERIOD 437

Alessandra Gubana, Anna Frangipane, Giovanni Tomasi

A SIMPLIFIED PROCEDURE FOR THE EVALUATION OF TRADITIONAL TIMBER FRAME HOUSE
SEISMIC RESPONSE 446

Nicaise Manfoumbi, Frédéric Dubois1 Nicolas Sauvat

BEHAVIOR IN SERVICE OF BEAMS IN FLEXION: ADAPTATION OF THE EUROCODE 5 TO A
TROPICAL CLIMATE 455

Geoffrey N Boughton, David J Henderson

TROPICAL CYCLONE YASI – LOAD TESTING OF TIMBER HOUSES ON A LARGE SCALE 460

Yulianto P Prihatmaji, Akihisa Kitamori, Kohei Komatsu

THE EFFECT OF BOND TYPES VARIATION ON BENDING PROPERTY OF REPAIRED
TIMBER BEAM 469

Session 28, Lateral-load Resisting Systems 3

Yasuhiro Araki, Takahiro Tsuchimoto, Takafumi Nakagawa, Naohito Kawai

CLASSIFICATION OF DAMAGES ON TIMBER WOOD HOUSES DUE TO 2011 TOHOKU-PACIFIC
OCEAN EARTHQUAKE 477

Chun Ni, Ying Hei Chui, Erol Karacabeyli

MECHANICS-BASED APPROACH FOR DETERMINING THE SHEAR RESISTANCES OF
SHEARWALLS AND DIAPHRAGMS 485

Johannes Adhijoso Tjondro, Denis Indriani, Steven Varian Lokanatha

THE BEHAVIOUR OF WOOD PLANK SHEARWALL WITH OPENINGS UNDER
CYCLIC LOADING 493

Johannes Hummel ,Werner Seim

WALL-SLAB INTERACTION OF MULTI-STOREY TIMBER BUILDINGS UNDER EARTHQUAKE
IMPACT 501

Haibei Xiong, Jiahua Kang, Xilin Lu

FINITE ELEMENT ANALYSIS ON DYNAMIC BEHAVIOR OF TIMBER FLOOR SUBJECTED TO
PEDESTRIAN-INDUCED FORCE 508

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Session 29, Connections 9

Cristiano Loss, Daniele Zonta, Maurizio Piazza

ANALYTICAL MODEL TO EVALUATE THE EQUIVALENT VISCOUS DAMPING OF TIMBER
STRUCTURES WITH DOWEL-TYPE FASTENER CONNECTIONS 516

Leander Bathon, Oliver Bletz-Mühldorfer, Jens Schmidt, Friedemann Diehl

ADHESIVE CONNECTIONS FOR WOODEN WIND POWER PLANTS - FATIGUE PERFORMANCE 526

Steffen Franke, Bettina Franke, Pierre Quenneville

ANALYSIS OF THE FAILURE BEHAVIOUR OF MULTIPLE DOWEL-TYPE CONNECTIONS LOADED
PERPENDICULAR TOP THE GRAIN IN LVL 528

Jürgen Hezel, Simon Aicher

MECHANICAL AND GLUED JOINTS IN GLULAM OF ULTRA HIGH EFFICIENCY 536

Session 30, Engineering Case Studies 2

Hiroshi Isoda, Naohito Kawai, Takahiro Tsuchimoto, Mikio Koshihara

DAMAGE TO WOOD BUILDINGS DURING THE GREAT TOHOKU EARTHQUAKE PART1- GROUND
MOTION AND ANALYTICAL STUDY 545

Naohito Kawai, Hiroshi Isoda, Takahiro Tsuchimoto, Mikio Koshihara

DAMAGE TO WOOD BUILDINGS DURING THE GREAT TOHOKU EARTHQUAKE PART2- DAMAGE
DUE TO GROUND MOTION 553

Daniel Lacroix, Ghasan Doudak

BEHAVIOUR OF TYPICAL LIGHT-FRAME WOOD STUD WALLS SUBJECTED TO
BLAST LOADING 561

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World Conference on Timber
Engineering 2012 (WCTE 2012)

Architecture and Engineering Case

Studies

Auckland, New Zealand

15-19 July 2012

Volume 3 of 5

Editors:

Pierre Quenneville

ISBN: 978-1-62276-305-4
Content

Session 31, Architectural Case Studies 1

Decio Goncalves, Carlito Calil Junior, Francisco Antonio Rocco Lahr, Mauro Augusto Demarzo
TREE-SHAPED TIMBER STRUCTURAL SYSTEM 12

Roberto Lecomte de Mello, Catharina Macedo, Ana Carolina Salustiano

TIMBER STRUCTURES IN THE NEW CERRADO’S INFORMATION CENTRE AT THE
BRASÍLIA BOTANICAL GARDEN – BRAZIL 21

Andrea Briani, Paolo Simeone, Ario Ceccotti

MAI, IVALSA MODULAR HOUSE 29

Greg Nolan, Jon Shanks

CONSTRUCTION AND ASSESSMENT OF A HERITAGE AUSTRALIAN TIMBER-FRAMED STORE
BUILDING 37

Alessandra Teribele, Benamy Turkienicz

ROUND TIMBER ARCHITECTURE: GENERATIVE PROCESS TO SURFACES AND
CONNECTIONS 47

Session 32, Architectural Technical Issues 1

Michael Schulte-Wrede, Michael Merk, Andreas Gamper, Stefan Winter, Axel Wolf
HYGROTHERMAL BEHAVIOUR OF A LARGE SCALE WOODEN FLAT ROOF STRUCTURE IN
CENTRAL EUROPE 55

Kyosuke Mukaibo, Yuko Fujiwara, Yu Ooka, Tatsuru Suda, Takahiro Tsuchimoto

STATIC HORIZONTAL LOADING TEST OF JAPANESE TRADITIONAL TIMBER RESIDENCE 63

Shiro Watanabe, Hideaki Sumikura, Kaori Fujita

STUDY ON WOODEN TEMPORARY HOUSES SUPPLIED BY LOCAL BUILDERS AFTER
THE TOHOKU EARTHQUAKE 71

Nathalie Labonnote, Anders Rønnquist, Kjell Arne Malo

EXPERIMENTAL STUDY ON MATERIAL DAMPING IN TIMBER BEAMS 80

Lin Hu, Richard Desjardins

CASE STUDY OF LOW-FREQUENCY FOOTSTEP SOUND TRANSMISSION THROUGH
WOOD FLOOR-CEILING ASSEMBLIES AND FPINNOVATIONS’ RESEARCH FRAMEWORK 86

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Session 33, Engineering Case Studies 3

Andrew H Buchanan, Stephen John, Simon Love

LCA AND CARBON FOOTPRINT OF MULTI-STOREY TIMBER BUILDINGS COMPARED
WITH STEEL AND CONCRETE BUILDINGS 92

Stefan Jaksch, Marjan Maftoon, Wolfgang Winter

REFURBISHMENT OF A 200-YEAR-OLD CUPOLA IN VIENNA– MODELING AND REPAIR
OF A SPATIAL TIMBER CONSTRUCTION 101

Hugh Morris, Miao Wang, Xiaoye Zhu

DEFORMATIONS AND LOADS IN AN LVL BUILDING WITH 3-STOREY POST-TENSIONED
SHEAR WALLS 110

Christopher Williams
THE NEW GENERATION OF HEAVY TIMBER CONSTRUCTION IN CANADA: A CASE-BASED
PERSPECTIVE 118

Lisa Oliver, Cameron Rodger, Stephen Clarke

MOTAT AVIATION DISPLAY HALL – TIMBER ENGINEERING CASE STUDY 126

Session 34, Design 13

Vijaya Gopu
BEST DESIGN PRACTICES FOR WOOD FRAME CONSTRUCTION IN TORNADO PRONE AREAS 132

Xiaoqin Liu, Frank Lam

RELIABILITY BASED EVALUATION OF SINGLE LATERAL BRACING FORCES IN COMPRESSION
WEB MEMBERS OF METAL PLATED WOOD TRUSSES 137

Huazhang Zhou, Enchun Zhu

AN ELASTIC-BRITTLE DAMAGE CONSTITUTIVE MODEL FOR MODELLING CRACKING
OF GLULAM 142

Jeno Balogh, Massimo Fragiacomo, Richard Gutkowski, Rebecca Atadero, Peter Ivanyi
FATIGUE BEHAVIOR OF NOTCHED CONNECTIONS IN WOOD-CONCRETE COMPOSITES 146

Kevin Rocchi, Ghasan Doudak, Haitham Yacoub

DETERMINATION OF DEFLECTION COEFFICIENT FOR PLANK DECKING SUBJECTED TO A
CONCENTRATED LOAD 151

Session 35, Lateral-load Resisting System 4

Giuseppe Caprolu, Bo Källsner, Ulf Arne Girhammar, Johan Vessby

ANALYTICAL AND EXPERIMENTAL EVALUATION OF THE CAPACITY OF THE BOTTOM RAIL IN
PARTIALLY ANCHORED TIMBER SHEAR WALLS 157

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Tobias Vogt, Johannes Hummel, Werner Seim
TIMBER FRAMED WALL ELEMENTS UNDER CYCLIC LOADING 167

Takuro Mori, Atsuo Takino, Wataru Kambe, Kohei Komatsu

LATERAL PERFORMANCE OF WOODEN PORTAL FRAME COMBINED WITH SHEAR WALL
USING PLYWOOD 174

Tiziano Sartori, Maurizio Piazza, Roberto Tomasi, Paolo Grossi

CHARACTERIZATION OF THE MECHANICAL BEHAVIOUR OF LIGHT-FRAME TIMBER SHEAR
WALLS THROUGH FULLSCALE TESTS 180

Giuseppe Caprolu, Ulf Arne Girhammar, Bo Källsner, Helena Johnsson

TESTS ON THE SPLITTING FAILURE CAPACITY OF THE BOTTOM RAIL DUE TO UPLIFT IN
PARTIALLY ANCHORED SHEAR WALLS 189

Session 36, Connections 10

Xiaoguang Jiang, Taisi Tomoto, Kei Tanaka, Masafumi Inoue

STUDY ON JOINT PROPERTY OF GIR JOINT SYSTEM SUBJECTED TO BENDING AND
TENSILE FORCE 195

Hiroyasu Sakata, Yoshihiro Yamazaki, Shinobu Miyaki, Hiromichi Ito, Azuma Fujishiro, Ryuki Odani
A STUDY ON FLEXURAL-SHEAR BEHAVIOR OF TIMBER JOINT USING LAGSCREWBOLTS
AND DRIFTPINS 203

Kei Tanaka, Kotaro Kawano, Yuji Noguchi, Takuro Mori, Masafumi Inoue
PROPOSAL OF CALCULATION METHOD FOR PULL-OUT STRENGTH OF GLUED-IN ROD
CONNECTOR EMBEDDED IN PERPENDICULAR TO THE GRAIN IN GLULAM 211

Bambang Suryoatmono, Yosafat Aji Pranata

AN ALTERNATIVE TO HANKINSON’S FORMULA FOR UNIAXIAL TENSION AT AN ANGLE
TO THE GRAIN 217

Shinya Matsumoto, Takaaki Ohkubo, Yasuaki Watanabe, Etsuo Kajita

DEVELOPMENT OF THE HIGH-STRENGTH AND HIGH-DUCTILITY TIMBER FRAMED
JOINTS USING DRIFT PINS AND FIBER REINFORCED PLASTICS 223

Session 37, Architectural Case Studies 2

Stefan Winter, Michael Schulte-Wrede, Kimmo Jebens

HIGHLY INSULATED WOODEN STRUCTURES IN NORDIC CLIMATE 227

Richard Hough, James Kell, Jim Koopman

CLT APARTMENT BLOCKS FOR THE SYDNEY AFFORDABLE HOUSING MARKET 235

David Bylund
INNOVATIONS IN THE USE OF ENGINEERED TIMBER IN AUSTRALIAN ARCHITECTURE:
ADVANCED SCANDINAVIAN ENGINEERED TIMBER AND INDUSTRIALISED CONSTRUCTION
TECHNIQUES IN AN AUSTRALIAN CONTEXT 243

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Camila Burgos Leiva, Jaume Avellaneda Díaz-Grande, Vladimir Rodríguez Trujillo
TRADITIONAL EXTERNAL TIMBER CLADDING IN MEDITERRANEAN CLIMATES 253

Wolfgang Winter, Gerulf Weber, Sebastián Hernández, Bernhard Brigola

STRATEGIES TO INCREASE USE OF TIMBER IN MULTISTOREY BUILDINGS - CASE STUDIES 262

Session 38, Architectural Technical Issues 2

Sotirios D Kotsopoulos, Carla Farina, Federico Casalegno, Andrea Briani, Paolo Simeone, Raffaele Bindinelli, Gaia
Pasetto
A BUILDING SYSTEM FOR CONNECTED SUSTAINABILITY 270

Jonna Silvo, Katja Vahtikari, Olli Paajanen, Simo Koponen, Matti Kairi
METHODS USED TO EXAMINE THE MOISTURE BEHAVIOUR OF THE WOODEN FLOOR
OF VIIKKI CHURCH 280

Yutaka Goto, York Ostermeyer, Edwin Zea, Holger Wallbaum

ECONOMIC, ECOLOGICAL AND BUILDING PHYSICAL OPTIMIZATION OF THE WOODEN
BUILDING ENVELOPE FOR SUTROPICAL REGIONS 287

Binsheng Zhang, Bastien Coutant

DYNAMIC PERFORMANCE OF ATTIC ROOMS IN DUO-PITCH TIMBER FRAME HOUSES 297

Hayashi Hirotsugu, Fujita Kaori, Ishii Mitsuru, Kobayashi Hiroyuki, Kusunoki Koichi
STUDY OF COUPLED VIBRATION AMONG INTERCONNECTED BUILDINGS OF TIMBER
STRUCTURE BASED ON MICROTREMOR MEASUREMENT AND EARTHQUAKE MONITORING 307

Session 39, Engineering Case Studies 4

Katja Vahtikari, Jonna Silvo, Matti Kairi

PROJECT BASED LEARNING FOR MASTER STUDENTS – CASE “INTEGRATED INTERIOR
WOODEN SURFACES” 315

Tony Holden, Carl Devereux, Shane Haydon, Andrew Buchanan, Stefano Pampanin
INNOVATIVE STRUCTURAL DESIGN OF A THREE STOREY POST-TENSIONED
TIMBER BUILDING 323

Bruce Curtain, Dave Dekker, Stanley Chung, Alessandro Palermo

DESIGN OF CARTERTON EVENT CENTRE: AN EXAMPLE OF INNOVATIVE COLLABORATION
BETWEEN ARCHITECTURE AND TIMBER ENGINEERING 331

Jelena Srpčič, Tomaž Pazlar

ASSESSMENT AND REHABILITATION OF SLOVENIAN CULTURAL HERITAGE –
CASE STUDIES 338

James Wacker, Travis Hosteng, Brent Phares

FIELD INVESTIGATIONS OF HISTORIC COVERED TIMBER BRIDGES IN THE USA 346

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Session 40, Design 14

A.J.M. Leijten, B.J.C. de Leijer, A.J.M. Jorissen

THE PERPENDICULAR TO GRAIN COMPRESSIVE BEHAVIOUR OF TIMBER BEAMS 356

Kjell A. Malo, Haris C. Stamatopoulos

IMPACT LOADING AND ROBUSTNESS OF WOODEN BEAM STRUCTURES 362

Fausto Sanna, Robert Hairstans, Kenneth Leitch, David Crawford, Jesus Menendez, Deb Turnbull
STRUCTURAL OPTIMISATION OF TIMBER OFFSITE MODERN METHODS OF CONSTRUCTION 369

Zhinus. Zabihi, Bijan Samali, Rijun Shrestha, Christophe Gerber, Keith Crews
SERVICEABILITY AND ULTIMATE PERFORMANCE OF LONG SPAN TIMBER FLOOR
MODULES CONSTRUCTION 378

Natalino Gattesco, Rita Franceschinis

NUMERICAL SIMULATION OF THE SEISMIC RESPONSE OF TIMBER FRAME MULTI-STOREY
BUILDING 386

Session 41, Lateral-load Resisting System 5

Alanna Erdle, Ian Smith, Jan Weckendorf, Andi Asiz

CONTROL OF THE DYNAMIC PERFORMANCE OF HYBRID STEEL FRAME AND CROSS
LAMINATED TIMBER SLAB BUILDINGS 396

Iztok Sustersic, Massimo Fragiacomo, Bruno Dujic

INFLUENCE OF THE CONNECTION BEHAVIOUR ON THE SEISMIC RESISTANCE OF
MULTI-STOREY CROSSLAM BUILDINGS 402

Maryoko Hadi, Anita Firmanti, Adhijoso Tjondro, Bambang Subiyanto, Kohei Komatsu
PERFORMANCE OF COMPOSITE SHEAR WALL PANEL OF LVL AND GRC BOARD 411

Naoyuki Matsumoto and Kaori Fujita

A STUDY ON WOODEN LATH AND PLASTER WALL OF JAPANESE EARLY MODERN WOODEN
ARCHITECTURE 417

Juan Correal, Sebastian Varela

SHEAR WALLS SHEATHED WITH GLUED LAMINATED GUADUA BAMBOO PANELS
SUBJECTED TO LATERAL LOADS 425

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Session 42, Connections 11

Maximilian Closen, Frank Lam

PERFORMANCE OF MOMENT RESISTING SELF-TAPPING SCREW ASSEMBLY UNDER REVERSE
CYCLIC LOAD 433

Nicolas Jacquier, Ulf Arne Girhammar

TESTS ON SHEAR CONNECTIONS IN PREFABRICATED COMPOSITE CROSS-LAMINATED-TIMBER
AND CONCRETE ELEMENTS 441

Per-Anders Daerga, Ulf Arne Girhammar, Bo Källsner

SLOTTED-IN STEEL-PLATE CONNECTIONS FOR PANEL WALL ELEMENTS – EXPERIMENTAL
AND ANALYTICAL STUDY 451

David Yeoh, Massimo Fragiacomo, Bruce Deam

LONG-TERM PERFORMANCE OF LVL-CONCRETE COMPOSITE BEAMS UNDER
SERVICE LOAD 461

Rijun Shrestha, James Mak, Keith Crews

EXPERIMENTAL INVESTIGATION ON EPOXY BONDED SHEAR CONNECTION FOR TIMBER-
CONCRETE COMPOSITES 466

Session 43, Architectural Case Studies 3

Jan Siem, Bjørn Otto Braaten, Pasi Aalto, Bendik Manum

RESEARCH BY DESIGN – A STUDY OF MAIN DIFFERENCES IN ARCHITECTURAL EXPRESSION,
TIMBER ENGINEERING AND INTERACTION BETWEEN THESE WHEN DIGITAL MODELLING IS
COMPARED WITH PHYSICAL MODELLING AS DESIGN TOOL 473

Takahiko Higuchi, Li Li
STRUCTURAL CHARACTERISTICS OF THE SUSTAINABLE WOOD STORE HOUSE IN MOUNTAINS
REGIONS OF CENTRAL JAPAN 482

Vladimir Rodríguez, Jaume Avellaneda

TYPOLOGICAL AND STRUCTURAL SYSTEM IN TRADITIONAL TIMBER ROOF OF MULTI-AISLE
BUILDINGS IN EUROPE 490

Atsunori Numata, Hiroshi Motoyama, Ikuo Momohara and Hikaru Kubo

EXPERIMENT ON LOG DURABILITY IN THE GROUND USING LARGE-SCALE CONTAINER 496

Christelle Ganne-Chédeville, Thomas Volkmer2, Bernhard Letsch

MEASURES FOR THE MAINTENANCE OF UNTREATED WOOD FACADES 504

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Session 44, Engineering Case Studies 5

Richard Harris, Bernd Gusinde, Jonathan Roynon

DESIGN AND CONSTRUCTION OF THE PODS SPORTS ACADEMY, SCUNTHORPE, ENGLAND 510

Stephen John, Andrew H. Buchanan

COST AND CONSTRUCTION TIME FOR A 3-STOREY POST-TENSIONED TIMBER BUILDING
COMPARED WITH STEEL AND CONCRETE 518

Kevin Cheung, Fang Xu

MID-RISE WOOD FRAME CONSTRUCTION 527

Shiling Pei, J. Daniel Dolan, John van de Lindt, and James M. Ricles
INTRODUCING DAMPING FOR CROSS-LAMINATED TIMBER STRUCTURES TO
IMPROVE SEISMIC PERFORMANCE 535

Session 45, Design 15

Ivan Giongo, Maurizio Piazza, Roberto Tomasi

OUT OF PLANE REFURBISHMENT TECHNIQUES OF EXISTING TIMBER FLOORS BY MEANS OF
TIMBER TO TIMBER COMPOSITE STRUCTURES 544

Tomi Toratti, Jorma Heikkinen, S. Olof Hägerstedt, Jesper Arfivdsson

CALCULATIONS AND MEASUREMENTS OF MOISTURE AND TEMPERATURE IN HIGHLY
INSULATED HOUSE WALLS MADE OF WOOD FOR A MOISTURE SAFE DESIGN 551
Mark L Batchelar
INNOVATIVE USE OF TIMBER ROUNDS IN HIGH PERFORMANCE STRUCTURES 557

Humihiko Gotou, Takanobu Sasaki, Seizou Usuki, Ryuichi Abe, Duy Hai Bui
NEW TYPE HYBRID BRIDGES UTILIZING STRESS-LAMINATED DECKS AND STEEL MEMBERS 564

Minjuan He, Zheng Li

EVALUATION OF LATERAL PERFORMANCE OF TIMBERSTEEL HYBRID LATERAL RESISTANT
SYSTEM THROUGH EXPERIMENTAL APPROACH 572

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World Conference on Timber
Engineering 2012 (WCTE 2012)

The Future of Timber Engineering

Auckland, New Zealand

15-19 July 2012

Volume 4 of 5

Editors:

Pierre Quenneville

ISBN: 978-1-62276-305-4
Content

Session 46, Standards 1

Werner Seim, Michael Schick, Lars Eisenhut

SIMPLIFIED DESIGN RULES FOR TIMBER STRUCTURES – DRAWBACK OR PROGRESS 8

Thomas Tannert, Till Vallée, Steffen Franke, Pierre Quenneville

COMPARISON OF TEST METHODS TO DETERMINE WEIBULL PARAMETERS FOR WOOD 13

Binsheng Zhang
COMPARISON OF VIBRATIONAL SERVICEABILITY CRITERIA FOR DESIGN OF
TIMBER FLOORS AMONG EUROPEAN COUNTRIES 21

Borjen Yeh, Sylvain Gagnon, Tom Williamson, Ciprian Pirvu

THE CROSS-LAMINATED TIMBER STANDARD IN NORTH AMERICA 31

Session 47, Future Trends 1

Wolfgang Winter, Kamyar Tavoussi, Tamir Pixner, Felipe Riola Parada

TIMBER-STEEL-HYBRID BEAMS FOR MULTI-STOREY BUILDINGS 41

John Chapman, Thomas Reynolds, Richard Harris

A 30 LEVEL CROSS LAMINATED TIMBER BUILDING SYSTEM AND ANALYSIS OF THE
EUROCODE DYNAMIC WIND LOADS 49

Vlatka Rajčić, Roko Žarnić

RACKING PERFORMANCE OF WOOD-FRAMED GLASS PANELS 57

Magnus Larsson, Alex Kaiser, Ulf Arne Girhammar

MULTI-STOREY MODULAR MANOEUVRES – INNOVATIVE ARCHITECTURAL STACKING
METHODOLOGY BASED ON THREE SWEDISH TIMBER BUILDING SYSTEMS 63

Session 48, Future Trends 2

Ruizhen Yang, Yan Xiao, Bo Shan

GLUBAM RAINBOW FOOTBRIDGE: DESIGN, CONSTRUCTION, EXPERIMENT AND ANALYSIS 73

Tony Walther, Grant Emms

OPTIMISED ACOUSTIC, FIRE AND STRUCTURAL WALL-TO-FLOOR JUNCTION IN
MULTI-STOREY LIGHT TIMBER FRAME BUILDINGS 81

Philipp Zumbrunnen, Jonathan Fovargue, Ronald Green

MID RISE CLT BUILDINGS – THE UK’s EXPERIENCE AND POTENTIAL FOR AUS AND NZ 91

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Jochen Kohler, Gerhard Fink
RELIABILITY BASED CODE CALIBRATION OF A TYPICAL EUROCODE 5 DESIGN EQUATIONS 99

Session 49, Future Trends 3

C. Dickof, S.F. Stiemer, S. Tesfamariam

WOOD-STEEL HYBRID SEISMIC FORCE RESISTING SYSTEMS: SEISMIC ANALYSIS
AND RESPONSE 104

Francesco Sarti, Alessandro Palermo, Stefano Pampanin

DESIGN CHARTS AND SIMPLIFIED PROCEDURES FOR POST-TENSIONED SEISMIC RESISTANT
TIMBER WALLS 112

Iztok Sustersic, Bruno Dujic

SEISMIC STRENGTHENING OF EXISTING BUILDINGS WITH CROSS LAMINATED
TIMBER PANELS 122

Kwang-Mo Kim, Kug-Bo Shim, Chang-Deuk Eom, Sang-Joon Lee, Joo-Saeng Park
FULL SCALE TEST OF TWO LANES ROAD BRIDGE COMPOSED OF 30M LONG TIMBER TRUSS
AND STRESS LAMINATED GLULAM DECK 130

Session 50, Future Trends 4

Anders Gustafsson, Hideyuki Nasu, Olle Hagman

INTRODUCTION OF A NEW BUILDING SYSTEM IN EUROPE, BIG FRAM, RESULTS AND
CONCLUSIONS 140

Michael Newcombe, Stefano Pampanin, Andrew H. Buchanan

GOVERNING CRITERIA FOR THE LATERAL FORCE DESIGN OF POST-TENSIONED TIMBER
BUILDINGS 148

Andreas Falk, Peter von Buelow, Poul Henning Kirkegaard

FOLDED PLATE STRUCTURES AS BUILDING ENVELOPES 155

Margaret Worth, Andy Gaul, Simon Jager, Piotr Omenzetter, Hugh Morris
ASSESSMENT OF DYNAMIC PERFORMANCE OF AN INNOVATIVE MULTI-STORY
TIMBER BUILDING VIA LONGTERM MONITORING AND FIELD TESTING 165

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Session 51, Connections 13

Marco Ballerini
EXPERIMENTAL INVESTIGATION ON PARALLEL-TO-GRAIN WOOD-TO-WOOD JOINTS
WITH SELF-TAPPING SCREWS 173

Julie Lartigau, Jean-Luc Coureau, Stéphane Morel, Philippe Galimard, Emmanuel Maurin
EFFECT OF TEMPERATURE ON THE LOAD BEARING CAPACITY OF GLUED-IN RODS 183

Min-Chyuan Yeh, Yu-Li Lin, Yung-Chin Huang

SHEARING PERFORMANCE OF MECHANICAL CONNECTION FOR GLULAM MEMBER JOINTS 193

Klaudius Henke, Robert Pawlowski, Peter Schregle, Stefan Winter

DIGITAL IMAGE PROCESSING IN THE MONITORING OF WIDE-SPAN TIMBER ROOF
STRUCTURES 200

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World Conference on Timber
Engineering 2012 (WCTE 2012)

Poster Papers

Auckland, New Zealand

15-19 July 2012

Volume 5 of 5

Editors:

Pierre Quenneville

ISBN: 978-1-62276-305-4
Content

Timber Engineering Challenges and Solutions

Till Vallée, Thomas Tannert, Quentin Gadais

INFLUENCE OF STRESS REDUCTION METHODS ON THE CAPACITY OF ADHESIVELY BONDED
TIMBER JOINTS 17

Jose R. Aira, Francisco Arriaga, Guillermo Íñiguez-González, Manuel Guaita, Miguel Esteban
ANALYSIS OF THE STRESS STATE OF A HALVED AND TABLED TRADITIONAL TIMBER SCARF
JOINT WITH THE FINITE ELEMENT METHOD 22

Mengting Tsai, Mikio Koshihara

THE RESEARCH OF PLAN MIXED HYBRID TIMBER STRUCTURE AND PARAMETRIC
EQUIVALENT BRACE STUDY OF FLOOR SLAB 27

Bo-Han Xu, Abdelhamid Bouchaïr, Mustapha Taazount

FINITE ELEMENT SIMULATION OF STEEL-TO-TIMBER JOINT IN TENSION WITH ANGLE
TO GRAIN 33

Kei Sawata, Masahiko Toda, Satoru Kanetaka, Takashi Harada, Yoshihisa Sasaki, Takuro Hirai
BENDING RESISTANCE OF REPAIRED COLUMNS AND STUDS OF WOODEN WALL 37

Hideyuki Honda
VIBRATION SERVICEABILITY OF BONGOSSI WOOD PEDESTRIAN BRIDGE 43

Yoshihiro Yamazaki, Kazuhiko Kasai, Hiroyasu Sakata

REDUCED EXPRESSION FOR TIMBER STRUCTURE WITH FLEXIBLE HORIZONTAL
DIAPHRAGM AND SEISMIC RESPONSE EVALUATION METHOD 49

Arch. Kobayashi Yoshihiro, Kamachi Ken, Inayama Masahiro

MOMENT RESISTING PERFORMANCE OF WEDGED AND HALVED SCARFED JOINTS,
OKKAKE-TSUGI IN PLASTIC REGION METHOD 55

Hidemaru Shimizu, Tatsuru Suda, Masatoshi Ogasawara, Seiyu Hashimoto, Tatsuo Okuda, Yoshiyuki Suzuki
SEISIMIC PERFORMANCE OF TRADITIONAL WOODEN HOUSES DAMEDED IN THE 2011
PACIFIC COAST TOHOKU EARTHQUAKE 65

Wolfgang Winter, Werner Hochhauser, Alireza Fadai

TIMBER-GLASS COMPOSITE TRUSSES AND PLATES 69

Leandro Dussarrat Brito, Carlito Calil Junior

TOPICS ABOUT MANUAL OF DESIGN AND CONSTRUCTION OF STRUCTURES WITH ROUNDWOOD
FROM REFORESTATION IN BRAZIL 75

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Mulugheta Hailu, Keith Crews, Christopher Gerber, Rijun Shrestha
LONG –TERM EXPERIMENTAL TEST ON TIMBERCONCRETE COMPOSITE BEAMS 80

Liu Yan, She Chengang, Zou Xiaojing

TEST RESEARCH ON THE MECHANICAL PROPERTIES OF WOOD FRAME SHEAR WALLS UNDER
LATERAL LOAD 86

Weidong Lu, Erwei Song, Min He, Kong Yue, Weiqing Liu
EXPERIMENTAL STUDY ON BENDING CREEP BEHAVIOUR OF REINFORCED GLULAM BEAM 91

Takumi Ito, Wataru Kambe, Saki Kondo

AN EXPERIMENTAL STUDY ON RESISTANT MECHANISM OF PLYWOOD PANEL -STEEL
COMPOSITE MEMBER 97

Vanessa Baño, Julio Vivas, Soledad Rodríguez, Keith Crews

NUMERICAL AND EXPERIMENTAL ANALYSIS OF THE VERTICAL VIBRATIONS ON SEVERAL
DESIGNS OF TIMBER FOOTBRIDGES 101

Haruhiko Ogawa, Hisamitsu Kajikawa, Hiroyuki Noguchi

A STUDY ON HORIZONTAL RESISTANCE MECHANISM OF WOODEN FLOOR WITH OPENING 106

Wolfgang Gard, Nadine Montaruli, Jan-Willem van de Kuilen

END-OF-LIFE WOOD QUALITY OF MOORING POLES 112

Shiro Aratake, Atushi Shiiba, Hideki Morita

MECHANICAL PROPERTIES OF REAL-SIZE BEAMS SAWN UP FROM SUGI (CRYPTOMERIA
JAPONICA D.DON) CURVED LOGS 116

Koji Murata, Yuji Kurenuma, Takato Nakano

EFFECT OF THERMAL TREATMENT BASED ON HIGH-TEMPERATURE SETTING METHOD ON
FRACTURE ENERGY OF WEDGE SPLITTING SPECIMEN MODELED 121

Wilfried Beikircher, Christian Lux

MICROWAVE PRETREATMENT OF NORWAY SPRUCE (PICEA ABIES) FOR PRESERVATIVE
TREATMENT 126

Jan Niederwestberg, Ying Hei Chui

CHARACTERIZING INFLUENCE OF LAMINATE CHARACTERISTICS ON ELASTIC PROPERTIES
OF SINGLE LAYER IN CROSS LAMINATED 130

Henry Meleki, Ian Smith, Andi Asiz

MOISTURE INDUCED DEFORMATIONS IN GLULAM MEMBERS – EXPERIMENTS AND
3-D FINITE ELEMENT MODEL 136

Atsushi Shiiba, Shiro Aratake, Hideki Morita

BENDING PERFORMANCE OF SUGI (CRYPTOMERIA JAPONICA) LUMBER SAWN PARALLEL TO
THE EDGE OF LARGE DIAMETER LOGS 144

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Takeshi Akaki, Hironori Maehara, Masayuki Tooyama
DEVELOPING OF WOOD AND WOOD-ASH BASED HYDROXYAPATITE COMPOSITES: THIRE
DURABILITY AND FIRE RETARDING PROPERTIES 148

Dr Geoffrey Boughton
A NEW ERA OF COMMERCIAL STRESS GRADING 152

Takashi Takeda, Yoshihiro Hosoo, Takahisa Yoshida

CHANGES OF MECHANICAL PROPERTIES OF JAPANESE LARCH SQUARE TIMBER KILN-DRIED BY
THE HIGH-TEMPERATURE SETTING METHOD DURING VARIOUS STORAGES 157

Tomaž Pazlar, Jelena Srpčič, Mitja Plos, Goran Turk

STRENGTH GRADING OF SLOVENIAN STRUCTURAL TIMBER 163

Wilson Fabiano Ribeiro, Maiko Cristian Sedoski, Jorge Luís Nunes de Góes
ANALYSIS OF DIFFERENT WEB-TO-FLANGE JOINTS OF WOOD I-JOISTS COMPOSITE 169

Tomohiro Chida, Humihiko Gotou, Hidefumi Yamauchi, Takanobu Sasaki, Yasuo Okazaki, Yasuo Kawai, Yasuo Iijima
THE FUNDAMENTAL STUDY OF THE PROPOSAL OF SHEAR FAILURE TEST METHOD AND
ESTIMATION OF PURE SHEAR STRENGTH OF JAPANESE CEDAR 173

Cecilia Alonso, Abdy Kermani

PERFORMANCE OF A MECHANICALLY LAMINATED TIMBER ARCHED SUSPENSION BRIDGE 179

Carlos Eduardo de Jesus Martins, Alfredo Manuel Pereira Geraldes Dias

SELECTION AND GRADING METHODS FOR MARITIME PINE UTILITY POLES 183

Njungab Emmanuel, Ntede N. Hippolyte, Regis Pommier, Ndikontar M. Kor, Ayina. O, Noah N. Joseph, Rene oum
lissouk, Mpon Richard
‘GREEN; GLUING OF TWO TROPICAL TIMBERS 187

Meng Gong, Stephen Delahunty, Shuzhao Rao, Y. H. Chui

DEVELOPMENT OF A MATERIALS-EFFICIENT FINGERJOINT PROFILE FOR STRUCTURAL
FINGER-JOINED LUMBER 191

Geert Ravenshorst, Wolfgang Gard, Jan-Willem van de Kuilen

CLASSIFICATION AND SAMPLING OF TROPICAL WOOD SPECIES FOR STRENGTH AND
DURABILITY ASSIGNMENTS LUMBER 195

Yoshinori Ohashi, Susumu Kawamura, Takuro Hirai

MECHANICAL PROPERTIES OFWOODEN I-JOISTS WITH DIAGONAL PLYWOODWEBS 200

Harri Metsälä
THE POTENTIAL OF ASPEN TIMBER IN NORDIC WOODEN BUILDINGS 204

Lenka Melzerová, Petr Kuklík, Michal Šejnoha

SPECIFICATION OF FEM MODELS OF GLUED LAMINATED TIMBER WITH VARIABLE
LOCAL MODULUS OF ELASTICITY 208

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Wataru Kambe, Naoyuki Itagaki, Yasuo Iijima, Tadao Nakagomi
MODE I FRACTURE TOUGHNESS FOR CRACK INITIATION BY CT TESTS AND THREE-POINTED-
BENDING TESTS WITH STRUCTURAL GLULAM 214

Eudir A. Affonso, Inácio M. Dal Fabbro, Mauro A. Demarzo

OPTICAL EXTENSOMETRY BY GEOMETRIC MOIRÉ DIGITAL ANALYSIS OF STRESS
IN THE PLANE – AN APPLICATION IN TIMBER 218

Steffen Franke, Pierre Quenneville

THE EMBEDDING BEHAVIOUR OF DOUGLAS FIR 224

Bettina Franke, Pierre Quenneville

INVESTIGATION OF THE SPLITTING BEHAVIOUR OF RADIATE PINE AND LVL UNDER
TENSION AND SHEAR 230

Andreas Rais, Jan-Willem G. van de Kuilen

PRE-GRADING OF DOUGLAS-FIR LOGS FOR GLULAM LAMELLA PRODUCTION 236

Alexandre Monteiro de Carvalho, Vitor Cesar Magnan Teixeira, Gustavo Cantarino Barata, Ananias Francisco Dias
Junior, Rodrigo Braga de Almeida, Elaine Ferreira Avelino
EVALUATION OF PHYSICAL PROPERTIES AND MACHINING OF AFRICAN MAHOGANY
(KHAYA IVORENSIS A. CHEV.) WOOD 241

Xiaobin Song, Yunfan Zhang , Xianglin Gu, Weiping Zhang, Rui Jiang , Leo Ravel
NON-DESTRUCTIVE TESTING OF WOOD MEMBERS FROM EXISTING TIMBER BUILDINGS
BY USE OF ULTRASONIC METHOD 245

Eduard Correal-Mòdol, Marcel Vilches Casals

PROPERTIES OF CLEAR WOOD AND STRUCTURAL TIMBER OF PINUS HALEPENSIS FROM
NORTH-EASTERN SPAIN 251

Cláudio H. S. Del Menezzi

ASSESSING PROPERTIES OF TROPICAL HARDWOODS TO MANUFACTURE ENGINEERED
WOOD PRODUCTS 255

Jieying Wang, Chun Ni

REVIEW AND SURVEY OF DIFFERENTIAL MOVEMENT IN WOODFRAME CONSTRUCTION 261

Hui-Feng Yang, Wei-Qing Liu, Wei-Dong Lu, Ju Tang

EXPERIMENTAL STUDY ON THE BOND AND ANCHORAGE BEHAVIORS OF GLUED-IN
ROD JOINTS IN GLULAM 266

Emanuella S. R. Silva, Cláudio H. S. Del Menezzi, Mário R. Souza

EFFECT OF THE PRESSURE ON THE GLUE-LINE SHEAR STRENGTH OF TWO TROPICAL
HARDWOODS
271
Hideyuki Hirasawa, Tomoya Yoshida, Jun Tonuma, Tetsuya Sato, Hiroshi Watanabe
TIMBER TRUSS BRIDGE FOR CASCADE USE 275

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Wanli Lou, Haiqing Ren, Zhaohui Wang, Haibin Zhou
GRADING RESEARCH ON LARCH STRUCTURAL DIMENSION LUMBER 279

Mikio Koshihara
THE SECULAR CHANGE OF THE TIMBER BRIDGE “KINTAI-KYO” 284

Cinthia Dias Rocha, Elias Taylor Durgante Severo, Fred Willians Calonego, Cláudio Angeli Sansígolo
CHEMICAL PROPERTIES AND DECAY RESISTANCE OF EUCALYPTUS GRANDIS WOOD
FROM STEAMED LOGS 289

Mizuho Yasukawa, Asami Suzuki, Noboru Yasui, Yuji Hasemi, Naohisa Kameyama, Koji Toyoda, Naoya Kadooka,
Daisuke Kamikawa, Mikio Koshihara, Tetsuro Ono
MECHANICAL PERFORMANCE OF HARDWOOD(ZELKOVA SERRATA) FRAME
ASSEMBLIES IN FIRE 293

Daniel P. Hindman, Lance D. Shields, Joseph R. Loferski

INVESTIGATION OF THE TENSILE STRENGTH OF KEYED MORTISE AND TENON JOINTS IN
TIMBER FRAME STRUCTURE 297

Sung-Jun Pang, Jung-Kwon Oh, Chun-Young Park, Se-Jong Kim, Jun-Jae Lee
EFFECTS OF SIZE RATIOS ON DOVETAIL JOINTS IN KOREAN TRADITIONAL
WOODEN BUILDING 304

H. Tran, C. Delisée, P. Doumalin, J. C. Dupre, J. Malvestio, A. Germaneau

COMPRESSIVE BEHAVIOUR OF WOOD-BASED FIBREBOARDS 308

Nataša Zavrtanik, Goran Turk

THE USE OF ARTIFICIAL NEURAL NETWORKS IN TIMBER GRADING 312

Tomaž Hozjan, Goran Turk, Stanislav Srpcic, Staffan Svensson

THE EFFECT OF CHANGING AMBIENT HUMIDITY ON MOISTURE CONDITION IN TIMBER
ELEMENTS
316
Tomaž Hozjan, Tomaž Pazlar, Stane Srpcic
EPERIMENTAL AND NUMERICAL ANALYSIS OF GLULAM BEAMS IN NATURAL CLIMATIC
CONDITIONS 31

René Oum Lissouck, Régis Pommier, Patrick Castéra, Louis Max Ayina Ohandja
TIMBER ENGINEERING AS A TOOL FOR SPECIES CONSERVATION IN TROPICAL RAIN FORESTS:
THE CASE OF THE CONGO BASIN FOREST 327

Srecko Vratuša, Manja Kitek Kuzman, Vojko Kilar

PARAMETRICAL COMPARISON OF GLUED LAMINATED BEAMS WITH VARIABLE HEIGHT 333

Akito Kikuchi, Hisamitsu Kajikawa

THE TIMBER HUT THAT PEOPLE CAN ASSEMBLE BY THEIRESELVES THE PROJECT OF THE
RECOVERY OF THE GREAT EAST JAPAN EARTHQUAKE 339

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Kazumasa Watanabe, Takashi Watanabe, Kimihiro Miyasaka
TIMBER STRUCTURE SEISMIC DESIGN ASSISTED BY MICRO-TREMOR MEASUREMENT 343

José Amorim Faria

MECHANICAL BEHAVIOUR OF ANCIENT TIMBER STRUCTURAL ELEMENTS AFTER FIRE 347

José Amorim Faria

GRADING PORTUGUESE OAK. A SIMPLIFIED METHOD 353

Beatrice Faggiano, Maria Rosaria Grippa

MECHANICAL CHARACTERIZATION OF OLD CHESTNUT CLEAR WOOD BY
NON-DESTRUCTIVE AND DESTRUCTIVE TESTS 35

Pouyan Zarnani, Pierre Quenneville

WOOD EFFECTIVE THICKNESS IN BRITTLE AND MIXED FAILURE MODES OF RIVETED
CONNECTIONS 365

Sulistyono, Naresworo Nugroho, Surjono Surjokusumo, Osly Rahman

MONOTONIC TEST OF SHEAR WALL PANEL MADE FROM MANGIUM WOOD 369

Strength and Serviceability – Extreme Events

Massimo Fragiacomo, Claudio Amadio, Giovanni Rinaldin, Ljuba Sancin

NON-LINEAR MODELLING OF WOODEN LIGHT-FRAME AND X-LAM STRUCTURES 371

Adlin Roseley, Martin P. Ansell, Dave Smedley, Shane Porter

CREEP OF THIXOTROPIC ADHESIVES IN BONDED-IN TIMBER CONNECTIONS AS A FUNCTION
OF TEMPERATURE AND HUMIDITY 377

Takuro Mori, Kotaro Kawano, Kei Tanaka, Yoshiyuki Yanase, Hiroshi Kurisaki, Mitsunori Mori, Yasunobu Noda,
Masafumi Inoue, Yasuhiro Hayashi, Kohei Komatsu
PROPOSE OF DECAY-ACCELERATION METHOD FOR REAL SIZE COLUMN-SILL JOINT AND
EVALUATION OF STRENGTH PROPERTIES 379

Xiaojun Yang, Youfu Sun, Zheng Wang

STUDY ON ENDURING PERFORMANCE OF SELF-TAPPING SCREW CONNECTION IN WOOD
STRUCTURE MEMBERS 384

Pouyan Zarnani, Pierre Quenneville

CONSISTENT YIELD MODEL FOR STRENGTH PREDICTION OF TIMBER RIVET CONNECTION
UNDER DUCTILE FAILURE 388

Haibei Xiong, Jiahua Kang, Xilin Lu

RESEARCH ON COMPOSITE ACTION BETWEEN SHEATHING AND JOIST IN TIMBER FLOOR:
TEST, FORMULATION, AND FINITE ELEMENT MODEL ANALYSIS 393

Carlito Calil Junior

HEALTH ASSESSMENT OF HAUFF TIMBER STRUCTURES IN BRAZIL 398

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Hiroshi Watanabei
OSAKI CITY, MIYAGI PREFECTURE SEISMIC DAMAGE IN EAST JAPAN EARTHQUAKE 403

Naoki Utsunomiya, Mitsuhiro Miyamoto, Minoru Yamanaka, Manabu Matsushima

MECHANICAL MODEL OF MUD WALL BASED ON SOIL MECHANICS 407

Chun Ni, Mohammad Mohammad, Abdullah Al Mamun, Ghasan Doudak

PERFORMANCE OF WOOD PORTAL FRAME SYSTEMS AS ALTERNATIVE BRACING SYSTEMS IN
LIGHT WOODFRAME BUILDINGS 412

Abdullah Al Mamun, Ghasan Doudak, Chun Ni, Mohammad Mohammad

PORTAL FRAME BRACING SYSTEMS USING FIBER REINFORCED POLYMER (FRP) IN
LIGHT-WOOD FRAME BUILDINGS 418

Zhong Ma, Minjuan He

EXPERIMENTAL ANALYSIS OF TIMBER DIAPHRAGM’S CAPACITY ON TRANSFERRING
HORIZONTAL LOADS IN TIMBER-STEEL HYBRID STRUCTURE 424

Tomoki Furuta, Masato Nakao

EVALUATION OF EARTHQUAKE RESPONSE OF WOOD FRAME WITH DIAGONAL
BRACE FASTENED BY NEW BRACE FASTENER 430

Koji Yamada, Yoshiyuki Suzuki, Masami Goto, Hiroyuki Nakaji

NUMERICAL ANALYSIS ESTIMATION OF HORIZONTAL RESISTANT FORCES OF VARIOUS
MUD PLASTERED WALLS IN JAPANESE TRADITIONAL WOODEN STRUCTURES 436

Tomiya Takatani
LOAD-DISPLACEMENT RELATIONSHIP OF ACM WOODEN-HOUSE RETROFITTING BRACE 440

Tamura Yui, Furukawa Tadatoshi, Fujimori Shigeru, Yoshida Takuya

STUDY ON IMPROVEMENT OF PERFORMANCE OF LATTICE SHEAR WALL USING DOMESTIC
TIMBER - EXPERIMENT ON ROTATIONAL STIFFNESS OF HALF-LAP JOINT INSERTED DOWEL 444

Seyed Ali Moayed Alaee, Timothy Sullivan, Colin A. Rogers, Roberto Nascimbene
SEMI-EMPIRICAL METHOD TO PREDICT THE DISPLACEMENT CAPACITY AND RESISTANCE OF
COLDFORMED STEEL FRAME WOOD-PANEL SHEAR WALLS 450

Hiroyuki Nakaji, Teruo Kamada, Masami Gotou, Koji Yamada, Yoshiyuki Suzuki
SEISMIC PERFORMANCE OF MUD-WALLS WITH SILL BASED ON FULL-SCALE CYCLIC
LOADING TESTS 456

Wen-Shao Chang, Takehiro Wakita, Akihisa Kitamori, Kohei Komatsu, Tasuo Kataoka, Min-Fu Hsu
DYNAMIC PROPERTIES OF A TRADITIONAL COMPLEX BRACKET SETS IN AN
ORIENTAL TEMPLE 460

Ji-young Park, Toshihiro Kuwano, Kei Tanaka, Masafumi Inoue

SEISMIC RETROFIT METHOD FOR EXISTING WOODEN HOUSES WITH LATTICE BEARING
WALL USING THICK PLYWOOD 464

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Satoshi Shimura, Kenji Miyazawa, Shinji Hikida, Yuushou Nakamoto
A STUDY ON TECHNICAL DEVELOPMENT OF HORIZONTAL DIAPHRAGM WITH GRID BEAMS
OF STAIRWELL
470
Tatsuru Suda, Yoshiyuki Suzuki, Yasuhiko Tashiro, Kyosuke Mukaibou
SEISMIC REINFORCEMENT FOR TRADITIONAL WOODEN FRAME BY IMPROVING RESTORING
FORCE DUE TO COLUMN ROCKING 474

Bo Källsner, Ulf Arne Girhammar, Johan Vessby

EVALUATION OF TWO ANALYTICAL PLASTIC DESIGN MODELS FOR LIGHT-FRAME
SHEAR WALLS 479

Takafumi Nakagawa, Mikio Koshihara, Naohito Kawai, Yukio Saito, Yoshiyuki Suzuki
DEVELOPMENT OF NUMERICAL ANALYSIS METHOD FOR JAPANESE TRADITIONAL WOOD
HOUSES CONSIDERING THE SLIDING BEHAVIOR OF COLUMN ENDS 489

Taishi Hatakeyama, Kento Suzuki, Kenji Miyazawa, Naohito Kawai

SEISMIC BEHAVIOR AND SEISMIC PERFORMANCE IMPROVEMENT ON THE COMPLICATEDLY
PLANE SHAPE OF WOODEN HOUSE 493

Daniele Casagrande, Simone Rossi, Tiziano Sartori, Roberto Tomasi

ANALYTICAL AND NUMERICAL ANALYSIS OF TIMBER FRAMED SHEAR WALLS 497

Yasuhiro Hayashi, Noriko Takiyama, Shinichi Hirosue, Takuya Matsumoto, Atsushi Nakagawa
FULL SCALE STATIC LOADING TESTS FOR TWO STORIED PLANE FRAME OF TRADITIONAL
TOWN HOUSE IN KYOTO, JAPAN 504

Asif Iqbal, Stefano Pampanin, Massimo Fragiacomo, Alessandro Palermo, Andrew Buchanan
SEISMIC RESPONSE OF POST-TENSIONED LVL WALLS COUPLED WITH PLYWOOD SHEETS 510

Chikako Tabata, Yoshimitsu Ohashi

STUDY ON SEISMIC DIAGNOSIS FOR WOODEN STRUCTURES PART 2:
RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN EVALUATION OF SEISMIC DIAGNOSIS AND DAMAGE LEVEL 516

Iuko Tsuwa, Mikio Koshihara

A STUDY ON THE VIBRATION CHARACTERISTICS OF TRADITIONAL TIMBER FRAMES
INCLUDING BRACKET COMPLEXES 520

Hyung-Kun Kim, Chun-Young Park, Sung-Jun Pang, Kwon-Hwan Hwang, Jun-Jae Lee
EFFECT OF LINTEL ON SEISMIC PERFORMANCE IN POST-BEAM STRUCTURE 525

Kenji Aoki, Tatsuya Shibusawa

EVALUATING IN-PLANE SHEAR MODULUS OF WOODBASED STRUCTURAL PANELS BY
RACKING TEST OF SMALL NAILED WALL 529

Mislav Stepinac, Vlatka Rajčić, Boris Androić, Dean Čizmar

RELIABILTY OF GLULAM BEAMS EXPOSED TO FIRE 534

Alar Just, Joachim Schmid, Birgit Östman

FIRE PROTECTION ABILITIES PROVIDED BY GYPSUM PLASTERBOARDS 540

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Faouzi Bouras, Myriam Chaplain, Zahreddine Nafa, Denys Breysse, Huyen Tran
EXPERIMENTAL BEHAVIOR OF WOOD COLUMNS UNDER EXTREME LOADING: CYCLIC
BUCKLING 545

Dean Čizmar, Vlatka Rajčić, Mislav Stepinac

ROBUSTNESS ANALYSIS OF STRUCTURAL TIMBER TRUSS SYSTEMS 551

Architecture and Engineering Case Studies

In-hwan Yeo, Kyung-suk Cho, Bum-yean Cho, Byung-yeol Min, Myung-o Yoon
AN EXPERIMENTAL STUDY ON MEASUREMENT OF SOUND INSULATION OF LIGHT WEIGHT
WALL WITH LOESS BOARD USED IN KOREAN TRADITIONAL HOUSE(HAN-OK) 556

Hisamitsu Kajikawa, Yoko Miyamoto, Hiroyuki Noguchi

POSSIBIRITY OF MID-RISE TIMBER STRUCTURE APPROCH BY 1/6 SCALE MODEL EXPERIENCE 561

Chee Siang Tan, Kaori Fujita

CONSTRUCTION METHODS AND EARTHQUAKE ENCOUNTER RECORDS OF JAPANESE
TRADITIONAL TIMBER THREE STOREY PAGODAS 567

Hei-Soo Baek, Hideki Morita, Atsushi Shiiba, Yutaka Iimura, Fujio Imai
INFLUENCE OF SHAPE FACTORS OF WOOD SCREW ON WITHDRAWAL PERFORMANCE −
DEVELOPMENT OF WOOD SCREW USED FOR SOFT AND LIGHT WOOD 5

Makoto Nakatani, Takuro Mori, Kohei Komatsu

DEVELOPMENT OF CROSS EMBEDDED JOINT USING LAGSCREWBOLT 579

Sana Munir, Abdy Kermani, Ian Harrison

A HYBRID SYSTEM FOR ENHANCING RACKING PERFORMANCE OF TIMBER PANELS 583

Roberto Lecomte de Mello, Catharina Macedo, Ana Carolina Salustiano

TIMBER STRUCTURES IN THE NEW FACILITIES OF ÁGUAS EMENDADAS ECOLOGICAL
STATION IN BRASÍLIA – BRAZIL 587

Roberto Lecomte de Mello, Renato Sette

GLULAM STRUCTURES IN THE NEW LPF’S WOOD DRYING AND WOOD TREATMENT
LABORATORIES – BRAZIL 591

Katsuhiko Kohara, Masaya Kishita, Masaru Tabata, Yasushi Komatsuzaki, Masato Ohchi
A STUDY ON THE EDUCATIONAL EFFECTIVENESS OF THE TIMBER STRUCTURAL DESIGN
WORKSHOP 595

Sejong Kim, Hyun Bae Kim, Joo Saeng Park, Moon Jae Park, Jun Jae Lee
AIR INFILTRATION IN TIMBER FRAME HOUSE WITH WOOD STUD INFILL WALL 599

Kazuhiro Matsuda, Kazuhiko Kasai, Hiroyasu Sakata

EARTHQUAKE RESPONSE ANALYSIS OF 2-STORY TIMBER FRAMES WITH PASSIVE CONTROL
SCHEME BY DETAILED FRAME MODEL 603

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Nadia Villa, Francesco Pittau, Enrico De Angelis, Giuliana Iannaccone, Giovanni Dotelli, Luca Zampori
WOOD PRODUCTS FOR THE ITALIAN CONSTRUCTION INDUSTRY – AN LCA-BASED
SUSTAINABILITY EVALUATION 609

Katsuhiko Kohara, Masaya Kishita, Masaru Tabata, Yasushi Komatsuzaki, Masato Ohchi
AN EFFECTIVENESS OF SEISMIC PERFORMANCES ASSESSMENT FOR SUSTAINABLE TIMBER
HOUSES ON MICROTREMORS MEASUREMENT 614

Rostand Moutou Pitti, Frédéric Dubois, Nicolas Sauvat, Eric Fournely

STRAIN ANALYSIS IN DRIED GREEN WOOD: EXPERIMENTATION AND MODELING
APPROACHES 618

Finn Larsen, Sigurdur Ormarsson

A NUMERICAL AND EXPERIMENTAL STUDY OF STRESS AND CRACK DEVELOPMENT IN
KILN-DRIED WOOD 624

Pablo Guindos, Manuel Guaita

THE PHENOMENOLOGICAL FRACTURE CRITERIA AND THE STRESS INTEGRATION
VOLUMES IN HETEROGENEOUS MODELS OF WOOD 629

In-hwan Yeo, Bum-yean Cho, Byung-yeol Min, Kyung-suk Cho, Myung-o Yoon5
A STUDY ON THE FIRE RESISTANCE PERFORMANCE OF WOOD FRAMED LIGHTWEIGHT
WALL WHICH INCLUDING A MIDDLE LINTEL 634

Takashi Yojo, Maria Beatriz Bacellar Monteiro, Fabiola Margoth Zambrano Figueroa, Gonzalo Antonio Carballeira
Lopez, Maria José de Andrade Casimiro Miranda
MODELS FOR EVALUATING STRUCTURAL WOOD DAMAGED BY XYLOPHAGOUS 638

The Future of Timber Engineering

Matt Holmes, Keith Crews, Grace Ding

SUPPLY CHAIN MANAGEMENT STRATEGIES FOR MULTISTOREY TIMBER CONSTRUCTION IN
AUSTRALIA AND NEW ZEALAND 643

Per-Anders Daerga, Ulf Arne Girhammar, Bo Källsner

MASONITE FLEXIBLE BUILDING SYSTEM FOR MULTISTOREY TIMBER BUILDINGS 645

Ling Lu, Christian Dagenais, Richard Desjardins

A SIMPLIFIED FIRE-RISK MODEL FOR CANADIAN MID-RISE WOOD CONSTRUCTIONS 651

Pablo Guindos, Juan Ortiz

LOW COST PHOTOGRAMMETRY AS A TOOL FOR STIFFNESS ANALYSIS AND FINITE
ELEMENT VALIDATION OF TIMBER WITH KNOTS IN BENDING 657

Magnus Larsson, Alex Kaiser, Ulf Arne Girhammar

CASE STUDY HOUSES 2.0: MASS-CUSTOMISED MULTI-STOREY TIMBER BUILDINGS –
COMPETITIVE HIGH-RISE TIMBER STRUCTURES FROM AN ARCHITECTURAL AND
ENGINEERING POINT OF VIEW 661

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Magnus Larsson, Alex Kaiser, Ulf Arne Girhammar
FROM FILE TO FACTORY: ADVANCED MANUFACTURE OF ENGINEERED WOOD ELEMENTS -
INNOVATIVE DESIGN SOLUTIONS FOR MULTI-STOREY TIMBER BUILDINGS THROUGHOUT
THE ENTIRE BUILDING PROCESS
667
Kamyar Tavoussi, Johannes Melbinger, Wolfgang Winter
PREFABRICATED EARTHQUAKE RESISTANT TIMBER STRUCTURES FOR MULTI-STOREY
BUILDINGS 673

Sang-Joon Lee, Chang-Deuk Eom, Kwang-Mo Kim, Joo-Saeng Park

STRUCTURAL PERFORMANCE OF WOOD-CONCRETE COMPOSITE BEAM FOR APPLICATION
TO BRIDGE SUPERSTRUCTURE 677

Hisamitsu Kajikawa, Yuka Okada, Atsushi Osawa, Mikihiro Uematsu, Osamu Tsuruta, Hiroyuki Noguchi
DEVELOPMENT OF SEISMOGRAPH WITH STRUCK LEVEL JUDGMENT FUNCTION INTENDED
FOR TIMBER STRUCTURE 681

Robert H. Leicester, Ron G. Pearson

MEASURED LONG DURATION STRENGTH OF TIMBER COLUMNS 685

Ying-Hei Chui, Erol Karacabeyli, Kenneth Koo

A MULTI-DISCIPLINARY CANADIAN RESEARCH NETWORK TO SUPPORT USE OF TIMBER IN
MULTI-STOREY AND NONRESIDENTIAL CONSTRUCTION 691

Niclas Björngrim, Lars Laitila, Samuel Forsman, Peter Bomark

MODEL-BASED PRODUCTION FOR ENGINEERED-TO-ORDER JOINERY PRODUCTS 697

Atsuko Tani
COMPARISON OF FIRE-PROOF REGULATIONS FOR MULTI-STOREY WOOD-BASED BUILDINGS
IN JAPAN AND AUSTRIA ~ CURRENT SITUATION AND DISCUSSIONS ON THE BACKGROUND
AND THE FUTURE 702

Qiu Peifang, Ni Zhaopeng

TIMBER BUILDING FIRE PROTECTION RESEARCH IN CHINA- PAST, PRESENT AND FUTURE 707

Roger Shelton, Graeme Beattie

TIMBER FRAMED BUILDINGS AND NZS 3604 712

Other

Samuel Forsman, Lars Laitila, Niclas Björngrim

3-D MEASURING FOR AN ENGINEER-TO-ORDER SECONDARY WOOD PROCESSING INDUSTRY 717

Tobias Pahlberg, Olle Hagman

FEATURE RECOGNITION AND FINGERPRINT SENSING FOR GUIDING A WOOD
PATCHING ROBOT 724

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Thomas Tannert, Philipp Dietsch, Clara Bertolini Cestari, Bohumil Kasal
COST ACTION FP1101 “ASSESSMENT, REINFORCEMENT AND MONITORING OF TIMBER
STRUCTURES” 734

Julio Cesar Molina, Carlito Calil Junior

NUMERICAL ANALYSIS OF COMPOSITE STRUCTURE WOOD CONCRETE IN FIRE 739

Wilfried Beikircher, Manuel Mössl, Anton Kraler

SELECTED PHYSICAL AND MECHANICAL PROPERTIES OF NORWAY SPRUCE (PICEAABIES)
GROWN IN THE EUROPEAN ALPS ON DIFFERENT SEA LEVEL AND HILLSIDE ORIENTATION 743

Aamir Khokhar, Hexin Zhang

THE USE OF TORSION TEST METHOD TO EVALUATE THE SHEAR PROPERTIES OF
TIMBER JOISTS 746

Vlatka Rajčić, Mislav Stepinac, Dean Čizmar

CASE STUDY – ASSESMENT AND RECONSTRUCTION PROJECT OF TECHNICAL MUSEUM’S
TIMBER STRUCTURE IN ZAGREB – CROATIA 752

Shinsuke Kawai, Atsushi Tabuchi

RESEARCH ON EXPERIENCED ARCHITECTURAL EDUCATION METHOD OF USING TIMBER
STRUCTURE 757

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World Conference on Timber Engineering


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