Presented by Md Abdul Hamid Mirdad
Mass Timber Panels (MTP) are a new generation of engineered wood panels that are available in large plane dimensions to facilitate fast floor construction with the environmental benefits of being a renewable material. In floor construction, concrete slab or topping is often applied over the MTP panels to improve various performance attributes, including structural, acoustic, and vibration serviceability. Mass Timber Panel-Concrete (MTPC) composite floor system often consists of a Mass Timber Panel (MTP) connected to the concrete layer with mechanical fasteners and a sound insulation layer in between. The behavior of the MTPC composite with an insulation layer is not well investigated. To address this gap, composite floor panels in one-way action have been tested in four-point bending with different configurations to investigate the influence of different parameters. This bending test will provide test data to assist in the development of an analytical model to predict the capacity, effective bending stiffness, and failure modes of the MTPC composite floor system.
