Experimental Investigation on the Bending Strength and Stiffness of Wood considering Wood Defects

Within the research project “Mechanical properties of wood for fire design”, conducted at ETH Zurich, the Technical University of Munich, and TALTEC University, the thermomechanical properties of timber exposed to fire are investigated as the basis for revising the design methods in EN 1995-1-2. The project includes full-scale fire tests on timber members, numerical examinations, and small-scale experiments under elevated temperatures. The small-scale experiments aim to investigate whether a correlation exists between the behaviour of timber members exposed to fire and exposure to elevated temperatures without direct fire exposure.