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bending stress in the timber is 12 MN/mZ.What will then be the maximum bending stress in the steel? For steel E = 200 GN/mZ; for wood E = 10 GN/mZ.

5 0 m m 50mm

200 mm

-r
t=12mm Equivalent wooden section

Fig. 4.18.

Solution

The flitched beam may be considered replaced by the equivalent wooden section shown in Fig. 4.18. The thickness t of the wood equivalent to the steel which it replaces is given by eqn. (4.14),
t=-t=

E E

200 x 109 x 12 = 240 mm l o x 109

Then, for the equivalent section 50 x 2003

= (66.67 - 0.51

+ 10.2)

= 76.36 x

m4

Now the maximum stress in the timber is 12 MN/m2, and this will occur at y = 100 mm; thus, from the bending theory,

M=-= Y

01

12 x lo6 x 76.36 x io0 x 10-3

=9 . 2 kNm

The moment of resistance of the beam, i.e. the bending moment which the beam can withstand within the given limit, is 9.2 kN m. The maximum stress in the steel with this moment applied is then determined by finding first the maximum stress in the equivalent wood at the same position, i.e. at y = 40 mm. Therefore maximum stress in equivalent wood
omax= __ =

My I

9.2 x lo3 x 40 x 76.36 x

= 4.82 x lo6 N/mZ