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Title: | Distribution of Concentrated Loads in Timber-Concrete Composite Floors: Simplified Approach | Authors: | Monteiro, Sandra Dias, Alfredo Lopes, Sérgio |
Keywords: | TCC floors; transverse distribution of load; concentrated loads; simplified approach | Issue Date: | 2020 | Publisher: | MDPI | Project: | project OptimizedWood–POCI-01-0247-FEDER-017867 | Serial title, monograph or event: | Buildings | Volume: | 10 | Issue: | 2 | Abstract: | Timber-concrete composite (TCC) solutions are not a novelty. They were scientifically referred to at the beginning of the 20th century and they have proven their value in recent decades. Regarding a TCC floor at the design stage, there are some assumptions, at the standard level, concerning the action of concentrated loads which may be far from reality, specifically those associating the entire load to the beam over which it is applied. This naturally oversizes the beam and a ects how the load is distributed transversally, a ecting the TCC solution economically and mechanically. E orts have been made to clarify how concentrated loads are distributed, in the transverse direction, on TCC floors. Real-scale floor specimens were produced and tested subjected to concentrated (point and line) loads. Moreover, a Finite Element (FE)-based model was developed and validated and the results were collected. These results show that the “loaded beam” can receive less than 50% of the concentrated point load (when concerning the inner beams of a medium-span floor, 4.00 m). Aiming at reproducing these findings on the design of these floors, a simplified equation to predict the percentage of load received by each beam as a function of the floor span, the transversal position of the beam, and the thickness of the concrete layer was suggested. | URI: | https://hdl.handle.net/10316/105845 | ISSN: | 2075-5309 | DOI: | 10.3390/buildings10020032 | Rights: | openAccess |
Appears in Collections: | I&D ISISE - Artigos em Revistas Internacionais |
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