TY - JOUR
T1 - Mechanical model for complex brackets system of the Taiwanese traditional Dieh-Dou timber structures
AU - Yeo, Sok Yee
AU - Komatsu, Kohei
AU - Hsu, Min Fu
AU - Que, Zeli
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Funding The author(s) disclosed receipt of the following financial support for the research, authorship, and/or publication of this article: Apart from the authorship and publication of this article, financial support was awarded to the first author by the Tan Kah Kee Foundation and National Cheng Kung University for the research.
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PY - 2016/1
Y1 - 2016/1
N2 - A static test was conducted to investigate the elastic and post-yielding structural behaviour of complex brackets system along the corridor frame region of the Taiwanese Dieh-Dou timber structures. One partial fully scaled specimen was loaded horizontally under different vertical loading levels. A mechanical model, focusing mainly on the rotational behaviours of bearing blocks and timber interlocking joints, was developed to estimate the global behaviour of complex brackets of the Dieh-Dou corridor frame region. By assuming each spring stiffness to behave bi-linearly, the model is only valid for the estimation of the primary and secondary stiffnesses. The force-deformation relationship is highly dependent on the rotational spring stiffness and vertical loads. Hence, when a heavier vertical load is imposed onto the structure, yielding rotation increases and subsequently, the yielding moment of the bearing block members is improved further. Generally, the predicted model was in good agreement with the observed results, up to the postyielding loading level.
AB - A static test was conducted to investigate the elastic and post-yielding structural behaviour of complex brackets system along the corridor frame region of the Taiwanese Dieh-Dou timber structures. One partial fully scaled specimen was loaded horizontally under different vertical loading levels. A mechanical model, focusing mainly on the rotational behaviours of bearing blocks and timber interlocking joints, was developed to estimate the global behaviour of complex brackets of the Dieh-Dou corridor frame region. By assuming each spring stiffness to behave bi-linearly, the model is only valid for the estimation of the primary and secondary stiffnesses. The force-deformation relationship is highly dependent on the rotational spring stiffness and vertical loads. Hence, when a heavier vertical load is imposed onto the structure, yielding rotation increases and subsequently, the yielding moment of the bearing block members is improved further. Generally, the predicted model was in good agreement with the observed results, up to the postyielding loading level.
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U2 - 10.1177/1369433215618269
DO - 10.1177/1369433215618269
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:84962473574
SN - 1369-4332
VL - 19
SP - 65
EP - 85
JO - Advances in Structural Engineering
JF - Advances in Structural Engineering
IS - 1
ER -