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TIMBER DESIGN TIMBER BEAM

DEC12 MAC13 MA.T

Clause

Remarks
TIMBER BEAM DESIGN
A timber section of 75 mm x 150 mm SG2 type grade is
designed to supports a flooring system which exerts a shortterm uniformly distributed load of 1.2 kN/m as shown in figure.
The beam is simply supported and held in position with no
notches at both ends on brick walls. Given the timber is in dry
condition and no defect, determine:
1. Bending stress
2. Shear stresses
3. Bearing Stress,
4. Lateral Buckling and
5. Deflection of timber beam
Conclude whether provided timber beam is sufficient to resist
load.

1. DETERMINE GRADE STRESSES OF TIMBER

Appdx.
C1

Based on Appendix C.1, for normal

structural grade should be applied.

purpose,

standard

For SG2 grade standard in dry condition

Table 4.

Bending Parallel to Grain, b,g,// = 18.3 N/mm2

Shear Parallel to Grain, g,// = 1.95 N/mm2
Compression perpendicular to grain, c,g, = 3.05 N/mm2
Emin = 12,600 N/mm2
Emean = 16,800 N/mm2

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2. DETERMINE MODIFICATION FACTOR, K

Duration of Loading, K1
Table 5.

For short term duration of loading, K1 = 1.50

C10.a).b)

Load Sharing System, K2

For simply supported beam, K2 = 1.0 and use for Emin to
determine deflection of timber beam
Length & Position of Bearing, K3

Table 6.1

Bearing Length > 150 mm .: K3 = 1.0

Shear at Notched End, K4

C11.4

No notched at both end .: K 4 = 1.0

Form Factor, K5

C11.5

Grade bending stresses apply to solid timber members of

rectangular cross section .: K5 = 1.0
Depth Factor, K6

C11.6

For depths of beams < 300 mm .: K6 = 1.0

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3. PERMISSIBLE BENDING STRESS

Determine permissible bending stress b,p,//
b,p,// = b,g,// x K1 X K2 X K5 X K6
= 18.3 x 1.5 X 1.0 X 1.0 X 1.0
= 27.45 N/mm2
4. PERMISSIBLE SHEAR STRESS
Determine permissible shear stress p,//
p,// = g,// x K1 X K2 X K4
= 1.95 x 1.5 X 1.0 X 1.0
= 2.925 N/mm2
5. PERMISSIBLE BEARING STRESS
Determine permissible bearing stress c,p,
c,p, = c,g, x K1 X K2 X K3
= 3.05 x 1.5 X 1.0 X 1.0
= 4.575 N/mm2
6. LATERAL BUCKLING
Table 7

For end held in position, maximum depth to breadth ratio = 3

Depth, h = 150 mm
Breadth, b = 75 mm
h/b = 150/75
=2
3

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Since 2 < 3 .: Section was prevent from lateral buckling under

design load
7. ALLOWABLE DEFLECTION
Deflection of member when fully loaded does not exceed
0.003 of the span
allow = 0.003 x Le
= 0.003 x 6000
= 18 mm

8. CHECK ADEQUACY OF TIMBER BEAM

i. Applied bending stress parallel to grain
b,a,// = Mmax y / Ixx
Mmax = wL2/8
= 1.2 (62)/8
= 5.4 x 106 Nmm
y = 150/2
= 75 mm
Table
B.3b

Ixx = 17,915,904mm4
.: b,a,// = Mmax y / Ixx
= (5.4x106 x 75)/17,915,904
= 22.61 N/mm2
ii. Applied shear stress parallel to grain
a,// = 1.5 ( Vmax / A)
Vmax = wL/2
=(1.2 x 6)/2
=3.6x 103 N
A = 10368 mm2
4

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Table
B.3b

.: a,// = 1.5 ( 3.6x103 / 10368)

= 0.52 N/mm2
iii. Applied bearing stress perpendicular to grain
c,a, = F / Abearing
= 3.6 x 103 / (75x200)
= 0.24 N/mm2

iv. Actual deflection

total = bending + shear
bending = 5wL4 /384EI
=(5x1.2N/mmx 6000 4) /384(12,600 N/mm2 x
17,915,904mm4)
= 89.7 mm
shear = 12wL2 / 5EA
= 12 (1.2N/mm)(60002) / 5(12,600 N/mm2 x 10368 mm2)
= 0.79 mm
.: total = bending + shear
= 89.7 mm + 0.79 mm
= 90.49 mm

Bending
stress

Permissibl
e

Actual

Actual /
Permissibl
e

Result

27.45

22.61

0.82

Adequate

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Shear Stress
Bearing
Stress
Deflection

2.925
4.575

0.52
0.24

0.18
0.05

Adequate
Adequate

18

90.49

5.02

Fail