Introduction of Concentrated Loads in CLT Wall Elements Parallel to Plane – Analytical Model for the Determination of Stresses and Simplification for Practice
In this paper a proposal for the computation of stresses into orthotropic panels (e.g. CLT wall elements) caused by concentrated local load introduction in plane is derived on the basis of linear elastic mechanics. In practice the concept of effective width is often applied for the approximate determination of stresses. On the basis of the elastic solution in this contribution a proposal for the determination of the effective width is submitted. In addition a proposal for the stability verifications by means of the effective width is given..