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Large X-Lam Floor and Roof Plates For Composite Construction

 Large X-Lam Floor and Roof Plates For Composite Construction
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Presented at 17th IABSE Congress: Creating and Renewing Urban Structures – Tall Buildings, Bridges and Infrastructure, Chicago, USA, 17-19 September 2008, published in , pp. 232-233
DOI: 10.2749/222137908796292380
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Focus is on using prefabricated Cross Laminated Timber (X-Lam) panels as slab elements in floors and roofs of composite steel framed buildings. The effectiveness of thin X-Lam panels to resist in-p...
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Medium: conference paper
Language(s): English
Conference: 17th IABSE Congress: Creating and Renewing Urban Structures – Tall Buildings, Bridges and Infrastructure, Chicago, USA, 17-19 September 2008
Published in:
Page(s): 232-233 Total no. of pages: 9
Page(s): 232-233
Total no. of pages: 9
Year: 2008
DOI: 10.2749/222137908796292380
Abstract:

Focus is on using prefabricated Cross Laminated Timber (X-Lam) panels as slab elements in floors and roofs of composite steel framed buildings. The effectiveness of thin X-Lam panels to resist in-plane and out of plane forces is considered based on numerical case studies of two- storey and six-storey buildings. In those studies comparison is made to the performance of matched systems with conventional steel and concrete composite (SRC) slabs. Substituting X- Lam slab elements lieu of SRC slabs was found to be beneficial because of X-Lam’s rigid diaphragm capabilities and lightness. Demands on the steel building frameworks were much reduced with X-Lam over a wide range of loading situations. Stresses levels and building sways during potentially critical seismic events were greatly reduced using X-Lam. Priority is being given now to refining X-Lam construction details with emphasis on slab to frame connections.

Keywords:
steel concrete connections roofs floors composite construction timber X-Lam