Mechanical properties of BFRP-reinforced glued laminated wood hollow round column under eccentric pressure

Abstract

The FRP-wood column elements are lightweight and high performance, meeting the social demand for sustainable construction. In this study, a basalt fiber reinforced polymer (BFRP) reinforced glued laminated wood hollow round column structure is proposed. Small eccentricity compressive tests and numerical simulations were carried out on glued wood hollow columns strengthened with BFRP to study the effect of BFRP arrangement on the mechanical properties of glued wood hollow columns with constant material, size and eccentricity. All samples are compression side of the wood first yielded, and then some samples tensile side of the end of the wood fracture or the central section of the wood was pulled off, which belongs to the typical compression bending failure and conforms to the characteristics of small eccentric compression. The compressive load capacity of the wood column after BFRP pasting was increased by 3.4%∼30.54%, and the lateral flexural stiffness was increased by 1.44%∼23.86%. Meanwhile, pasting BFRP at the end and middle of the wood column can effectively restrain the compression deformation at the end and bending deformation at the middle, and obtain higher load capacity and lateral flexural stiffness. The numerical simulation results agree well with the experimental results and can effectively characterize the mechanical properties of BFRP-reinforced glued laminated wood hollow round column under eccentric loading conditions.