American Journal of Civil Engineering

Special Issue

Predictive Estimation by ANSYS for Laminated Wood Deep Beam

  • Submission Deadline: 20 January 2015
  • Status: Submission Closed
  • Lead Guest Editor: Adeola A Adedeji
About This Special Issue
This work concentrated on two laminar hard wooden beams. From the laboratory test results, the maximum load the beam can carry is 43kN having a maximum deflection of 3mm, This satisfies permissible deflection which must be ≤ 0.003 span or 14mm. ANSYS software analysis predicted that the maximum load the beam can carry is 40kN for both tests while the maximum deflection is 2.5mm for compression test and 1.6mm for tension. This also satisfies the permissible deflection which is less than allowable value of 14mm. Hence, the two results satisfy permissible deflection making the specimen timbers suitable as laminated deep beam for construction of industrial buildings. Other advantages of the beam include the availability and its structural stability. Deflection results of the two specimens species used as case study (teak: Tectonia Grandis and iroko: Melicia Excelsa), showed that teak is 0.985 of iroko even when there they were not clamped.
Lead Guest Editor
  • Adeola A Adedeji

    Department of Civil Engineering, Faculty of Engineering and Technology, University of Ilorin, Ilorin, Nigeria

Guest Editors
  • Eriki Ananda Kumar

    Department of Mechanical Engineering, Nilai University, Nilai, Malaysia

Published Articles
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    S. O. Odeyemi , O. O. Otunola , A. O. Adeyemi , W. O. Oyeniyan , M. Y. Olawuyi

    Issue: Volume 3, Issue 2-3, March 2015
    Pages: 6-9
    Received: 12 December 2014
    Accepted: 23 January 2015
    Published: 11 April 2015
    DOI: 10.11648/j.ajce.s.2015030203.12
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    Abstract: This research investigated and compared the strength of manual with machine compacted sandcrete hollow blocks using Dangote and Elephant (Ordinary Portland) cement brands in Nigeria. Thirty two (32) samples were moulded from the two brands of cement i.e. sixteen (16) from each cement brand for both manual and machine compaction methods and were cur... Show More
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    S. O. Odeyemi , M. A. Anifowose , M. O. Oyeleke , A. O. Adeyemi , S. B. Bakare

    Issue: Volume 3, Issue 2-3, March 2015
    Pages: 1-5
    Received: 9 January 2015
    Accepted: 22 January 2015
    Published: 7 April 2015
    DOI: 10.11648/j.ajce.s.2015030203.11
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