Yoshihisa TAJI, Yoshiharu ISHIKAWA and Kazuo SHIDA
Wooden Azekura dams sometimes require long membersiapproximately ‚Sm in lengthjas construction material, which are not readily available. Therefore, we devised a new arrangement of longitudinal members that reduces the use of long material and efficiently uses thinned wood in order to improve assembly workability. We performed experiments with full]scale models and verified differences in behavior between arrangements that used conventional long material and staggered arrangements that did not use the long material, by applying loads. No significant difference was observed in the displacement of the two structures during loading, and the effectiveness of structures that employed staggered arrangements was verified.
Key wordsFAzekura wooden structures, pressurizing]compression]treated wood, staggered arrangement