Abstract: Stress‐laminated T‐system timber bridges consist of laminated deck sections combined with glued‐laminated timber beams compressed transversely with high‐strength steel bars. In the design of these structures, a deck‐and‐beam ...

Abstract: Stress‐laminated timber bridge decks consist of lumber assemblies transversely posttensioned with high‐strength steel bars. The lumber components contain end‐to‐end butt joints to span the length of the bridge. At any cross ...

Abstract: The design of a deck-and-stringer bridge system is usually reduced to the analysis of a T-beam section, loaded by concentrated loads corresponding to an equivalent fraction of the applied truck load. This equivalent load ...

Abstract: The mathematical modeling of glued‐laminated (glulam) timber beams is greatly simplified by considering the material to be isotropic in the plane of the cross section. In this paper, the hypothesis of transverse isotropy ...

Abstract: A concise state-of-the-art survey of fiber-reinforced polymer (also known as fiber-reinforced plastic) composites for construction applications in civil engineering is presented. The paper is organized into separate sections ...