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Corrugated Wood Composite Panels For Structural Decking

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Boundary Conditions and Gap ElementsFigure 8 shows a typical 4-node bilinear thin shell element mesh for a corrugatedpanel. The mesh is generated on the mid-surface of the skin thickness of the corrugatedpanel. The local coordinate systems for the elements are defined such that the x-axis isparallel to the strong axis or the channels; the y-axis follows the corrugation across thewidth of the panel; z-axis is always perpendicular to the surface of the elements (refer toFigure 8).transverse spreadingrestraintszxyzxyconcentrated nodal loadon beam elementgap elementsrigid beam elementsclamped restraintsFigure 8: Typical 4-node thin shell elements mesh for corrugated panel.22

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