Deflections of Uniformly Loaded Floors. A Beam-Spring Analog.

Abstract

A new method for computing the performance of uniformly loaded wood floors is presented. The procedure presents a floor as a simple structure consisting of a beam supported by elastic springs. The method computes midspan joist deflections which are virtually identical to those obtained from a large-scale finite element program, but a fraction of the computational effort. Also, computations agree very closely with laboratory results. A simple BASIC program is presented for implementing the procedure.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Sep 01, 1984
Accession Number
ADA146903

Entities

People

  • W. J. Mccutcheon

Organizations

  • Forest Products Laboratory

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DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Civil Engineering
  • Coefficients
  • Composite Materials
  • Deflection
  • Discontinuities
  • Elastic Properties
  • Engineering
  • Engineers
  • Equations
  • Experimental Data
  • Materials
  • Mechanical Properties
  • Modulus Of Elasticity
  • Simultaneous Equations
  • Stiffness
  • Structural Analysis
  • United States

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  • Finite Element Method (FEM) for solving Partial Differential Equations (PDEs)
  • Forest Ecology
  • Structural Dynamics.