VALIDATION OF OUTER PLATE BOLTED GLULAM TIMBER CONNECTION IN FIRE
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Abstract
A few hundred years ago, people began employing wood to construct buildings with ten stories or more. Today, wood is used extensively in architectural construction around the globe. With a contemporary design, the cost of full-scale testing for bolted glued laminated (glulam) connection experiments is very high and time-consuming. Therefore, using computer software to simulate the behaviour of the glulam connection will save time and money for the research. The results obtained from the computer software shall be within the acceptable margin of error. Finite element modelling (FEM) through Abaqus 6.14 software was used to simulate the behaviour of glulam connections under different conditions by modifying the test methodology and input parameters. Experimental results are used to validate the results from FEM so that the differences are compared. This research uses FEM to validate the results from the work of previous researchers on the tensile test without fire and heat test with constant load. The parameters are used to predict the behaviour of the model subjected to tensile load and heat.
