Energy-Dissipation Performance of Typical Beam-Column Joints in Yingxian Wood Pagoda: Experimental Study
Publication: Journal of Performance of Constructed Facilities
Volume 30, Issue 3
Abstract
This paper presents an experimental investigation on the structural performance of the beam-column joints of Yingxian Wood Pagoda. A scaled model of typical beam-column joints with dovetail tenon-mortise connection was manufactured and tested. Four failure modes of the joint were identified. These included yield of component under compression perpendicular or parallel to grain, fracture of component under tension perpendicular to grain, and tenon pullout from mortise. The structural performance of the model beam-column joint was revealed from test observations, and the stiffness and the moment-resisting capacity of the prototype beam-column joints of the pagoda were derived based on the similitude theory. An analytical model for estimating the lateral stiffness and load-carrying capacity of a bay of the column-frames using the structural performance of beam-column joints was developed and applied to evaluating the inter-story lateral performance of the pagoda. This study provides reference, from a structural point of view, for the preservation of cultural heritage structures such as Yingxian Wood Pagoda.
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Acknowledgments
The authors would like to thank the Chinese Academy of Cultural Heritage, Cultural Relics Bureau of Shanxi Province and the Management Office of Yingxian Wood Pagoda for the assistance provided during the on-site survey of the pagoda. Thanks are also due to research students of our group Lipeng Qiu, Tiane Li, Mengjie Wang, Yongfeng Liu, Bo Wang, and Yong Zhong, who helped with testing of the model of the beam-column joint.
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Journal of Performance of Constructed Facilities
Volume 30 • Issue 3 • June 2016
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Received: Sep 4, 2014
Accepted: Mar 9, 2015
Published online: May 13, 2015
Discussion open until: Oct 13, 2015
Published in print: Jun 1, 2016
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