Article ID | Journal | Published Year | Pages | File Type |
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256440 | Construction and Building Materials | 2016 | 12 Pages |
•Behavior of timber buildings subjected to horizontal forces.•Stiffness of timber shear-wall.•Numerical modelling of timber shear-wall.•Hold-down effect on the behavior of timber shear-walls.
A simplified and reliable tool for the elastic analysis of one-storey timber shear-walls under simultaneous horizontal and vertical loads is presented. This approach is suitable for the analysis both of light timber-frame walls and CLT walls. The analytical expressions to determine the horizontal displacement and the elastic stiffness of a single wall are provided, these expressions are then extended to walls placed in series. A simplified numerical model suitable for F.E. analysis is also developed. In the last part of the paper a comparison between an analytical example and the results of a laboratory test is shown.