Laminated Veneer Lumber (LVL) sengon: an innovative sustainable building material in Indonesia

Laminated Veneer Lumber (LVL) is recently available in Indonesian markets. The veneers are majority from Sengon wood (Paraserianthes falcataria), which is a fast-growing timber species native to Indonesia. Their use in practice is limited to non-structural components since Sengon wood species has lo...

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Main Authors: Awaludin, Ali, Shahidan, Shahiron, Basuki, Achmad, Mohd Zuki, Sharifah Salwa
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Language:English
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Online Access:http://eprints.uthm.edu.my/4624/1/AJ%202018%20%28111%29.pdf
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author Awaludin, Ali
Shahidan, Shahiron
Basuki, Achmad
Mohd Zuki, Sharifah Salwa
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Shahidan, Shahiron
Basuki, Achmad
Mohd Zuki, Sharifah Salwa
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description Laminated Veneer Lumber (LVL) is recently available in Indonesian markets. The veneers are majority from Sengon wood (Paraserianthes falcataria), which is a fast-growing timber species native to Indonesia. Their use in practice is limited to non-structural components since Sengon wood species has low engineering properties and less resistance to termite attacks. The LVL production introduced few years ago has significantly improved both mechanical properties and durability as well as has expanded its utilization into various structural components. This remarkable improvement has made LVL Sengon wood as an innovative sustainable building materials in Indonesia. This paper summarized a series of authors’ work conducted since couple years ago to initiate the utilization of LVL Sengon in structural components such as shear walls and floor systems as parts of a project to develop its design standard. In addition, creep behavior of this LVL is also highlihgted here as this phenomenon is essential for designers and engineers to anticipate their designs within their service life. In particular, the test results showed that addition of diagonal members increased both racking resistance and equivalent viscous damping ratio of the developed LVL shear walls. And the LVL floor model which is composed of built-up box joists and plywood sheathing remained liniear-elastic under bearing load up to 18.75 kN/2 .
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spelling uthm.eprints-46242021-12-07T09:12:01Z http://eprints.uthm.edu.my/4624/ Laminated Veneer Lumber (LVL) sengon: an innovative sustainable building material in Indonesia Awaludin, Ali Shahidan, Shahiron Basuki, Achmad Mohd Zuki, Sharifah Salwa T Technology (General) TA Engineering (General). Civil engineering (General) Laminated Veneer Lumber (LVL) is recently available in Indonesian markets. The veneers are majority from Sengon wood (Paraserianthes falcataria), which is a fast-growing timber species native to Indonesia. Their use in practice is limited to non-structural components since Sengon wood species has low engineering properties and less resistance to termite attacks. The LVL production introduced few years ago has significantly improved both mechanical properties and durability as well as has expanded its utilization into various structural components. This remarkable improvement has made LVL Sengon wood as an innovative sustainable building materials in Indonesia. This paper summarized a series of authors’ work conducted since couple years ago to initiate the utilization of LVL Sengon in structural components such as shear walls and floor systems as parts of a project to develop its design standard. In addition, creep behavior of this LVL is also highlihgted here as this phenomenon is essential for designers and engineers to anticipate their designs within their service life. In particular, the test results showed that addition of diagonal members increased both racking resistance and equivalent viscous damping ratio of the developed LVL shear walls. And the LVL floor model which is composed of built-up box joists and plywood sheathing remained liniear-elastic under bearing load up to 18.75 kN/2 . Penerbit UTHM 2018 Article PeerReviewed text en http://eprints.uthm.edu.my/4624/1/AJ%202018%20%28111%29.pdf Awaludin, Ali and Shahidan, Shahiron and Basuki, Achmad and Mohd Zuki, Sharifah Salwa (2018) Laminated Veneer Lumber (LVL) sengon: an innovative sustainable building material in Indonesia. International Journal of Integrated Engineering, 10 (1). pp. 17-22. ISSN 2229-838X https://doi.org/10.30880/ijie.2018.10.01.003
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TA Engineering (General). Civil engineering (General)
Awaludin, Ali
Shahidan, Shahiron
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Laminated Veneer Lumber (LVL) sengon: an innovative sustainable building material in Indonesia
title Laminated Veneer Lumber (LVL) sengon: an innovative sustainable building material in Indonesia
title_full Laminated Veneer Lumber (LVL) sengon: an innovative sustainable building material in Indonesia
title_fullStr Laminated Veneer Lumber (LVL) sengon: an innovative sustainable building material in Indonesia
title_full_unstemmed Laminated Veneer Lumber (LVL) sengon: an innovative sustainable building material in Indonesia
title_short Laminated Veneer Lumber (LVL) sengon: an innovative sustainable building material in Indonesia
title_sort laminated veneer lumber lvl sengon an innovative sustainable building material in indonesia
topic T Technology (General)
TA Engineering (General). Civil engineering (General)
url http://eprints.uthm.edu.my/4624/1/AJ%202018%20%28111%29.pdf
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