Research Article

Bending Performance of Prestressed Continuous Glulam Beams

Table 6

Bearing capacity of beams with different numbers of steel bars.

Group (reinforcement ratio %)Beam no.Prestress (kN)Bearing capacity (kN)
Test value (kN)Average (kN)Improvement rate (%)
Left spanRight span

1.92LA1(1)072.8563.0361.33
LA1(2)59.6261.96
LA4(1)766.5371.3967.5510.14
LA4(2)71.3968.57
LA7(1)1466.8266.8267.6510.3
LA7(2)68.9668.47

3.84LA2(1)082.4790.3579.36
LA2(2)78.9776.25
LA5(1)788.9987.5381.262.39
LA5(2)78.8774.99
LA8(1)1488.0187.6284.516.49
LA8(2)84.0381.4

5.76LA3(1)086.7585.181.45
LA3(2)90.1577.8
LA6(1)795.2194.9288.168.24
LA6(2)81.482.96
LA9(1)1497.7498.2292.2513.26
LA9(2)86.7588.11