Zweiachsige Lastabtragung von Brettsperrholzplatten

Two-axial load transfer of Cross-Laminated-Timber plates

In the last years building activity with solid Cross Laminated Timber (CLT) elements gained remarkable relevance. Starting with single family houses over 15 years ago medium and large sized building construction jobs are analysed and solved in the meantime. Two examples for large multi-storey houses with eight floors each, erected completely with CLT, can be cited here: on the one hand the Murray Grove Tower (2008) and on the other hand the Bridboard House (2010) - both realized in London. Structural design of these CLT-plates is performed traditionally as simply supported uniaxial plate. Only the stronger, more important main direction of CLT-plates, which is defined as the orientation of the outer layers, is treated by this assumption. In order to include the minor important orthogonal direction of CLT in a two dimensional plate theory all plate stiffness coefficients of CLT-plates are illustrated and discussed in the present paper. Consequently special cases as large cutouts in CLT-plates and column supported CLT-plates can be treated with the well known REISSNER-MINDLIN plate theory, which includes deformation due to bending and shear.