Modeling the roof deck and determining its effect on the stability of a glulam timber dome

A finite element modeling and geometrically nonlinear static analysis of the top portion of a glued-laminated timber dome is presented. The modeling assumptions and analysis procedures are applied to a dome model whose geometry is based on an existing glulam timber dome of 133 ft. span and 18 ft....

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Mohammad, Haris
Other Authors: Civil Engineering
Format: Dissertation
Published: Virginia Tech 2014
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Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/10919/40690
http://scholar.lib.vt.edu/theses/available/etd-01202010-020120/