ANALYSIS OF FINGER-JOINTS IN GLASS FIBER-REINFORCED POLYMER (GFRP) COMPOSITE GLUED LAMINATED TIMBER BEAMS
Abstract
The objective of this paper was to evaluate the effect of finger-joint reinforcement on thebending strength and stiffness of glulam beams made from high-density Eucalyptus spp. glued with resorcinol-formaldehyde adhesive.Six glulam beams were tested: three reinforced with glass fiber-reinforced polymer(GFRP) and three unreinforced for comparison. The GFRP was placed between the last two laminatesand at the bottom edge of theglulam only in the finger-joint position. The stiffness and strength of glulam beams were evaluated using static bending tests, which showed that the use of GFRP reinforcement resulted in a gain of more than 100% in average ultimate bending moment and about 10% in average bending stiffness. Tocalculate the theoretical bending stiffness and normal stresses, a theoretical analysis of beam bending was performed using the transformed section method, which showed agreement with the experimental results.
Reference
PEDRO GUTEMBERG DE ALCÂNTARA SEGUNDINHO; ANTONIO ALVES DIAS. (2023). ANALYSIS OF FINGER-JOINTS IN GLASS FIBER-REINFORCED POLYMER (GFRP) COMPOSITE GLUED LAMINATED TIMBER BEAMS. Wood Research. https://doi.org/10.37763/wr.1336-4561/68.4.666679
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