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Anchori ng of w oode n a ttac hm ents to rei nforce d c oncr e te
When designing the anchorage of timber attachments, such as sleepers or
purlins to reinforced concrete, a few special considerations must be taken into
account.
Fig. 1: Purlin anchorage to reinforced concrete wall Fig. 2: Sleeper anchorage to concrete slab
With the help of the fischer design program C-FIX, as part of the free
program package FiXperience, a large part of the required evidence can
already be carried out comfortably.
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There are a few things to consider when designing with the C-FIX software.
As a general rule:
The respective ETA of the anchors (dowels) regulates the anchoring in reinforced
concrete. All verifications in wood must be carried out by the customer, e.g.
according to DIN EN 1995-1-1 (EC5) and the respective national annex.
The following describes the procedure for different types of loading, subdivided
according to tensile and shear load or, in the case of shear load, once with and
once without additional, single-sided anchors of a special design.
Biegung-Holz - HSD-15.09.2020
Translated – GHH -10.08.2022
For pure tensile load:
The timber component is entered into the C-FIX program in the same way as a
steel attachment - with the appropriate timber thickness so that the program selects
a sufficiently long anchor, or the correct effective length of the anchor
Fig. 3: Screenshot C-FIX
In the case of pure tensile stress, the pressure under the U-disk, usually
perpendicular to the grain direction, would have to be verified by the building site.
For this purpose, it is usually essential to use an appropriately sized U-disk, e.g.
according to DIN 1052, in conjunction with the anchors.
For the FAZ II 12 and 16 anchor sizes, we offer a variant with HBS (timber
construction washer). These large U-disks are capable of transmitting the
installation torque of the FAZ II into or through the wooden component without
generating too much pressure in the wooden component.
Fig. 4: FAZ II 12/100 HBS
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In the case of shear forces, there are basically 2 options:
For both of the following variants, it must be taken into account that a possibly
eccentrically acting shear load (e.g. acting on top of O.K. wood) can also generate a
tilting moment, which can cause the wood to twist or overturn, if this moment cannot
be transferred or avoided in some other way, e.g. via the connection between the
adjoining components and the actual wood attachment to be anchored.
In this case, the tilting moment would still have to be entered separately as an
external action - this is not done automatically in the design program!
This moment then generates additional tensile forces in the anchors.
The inner lever arm due to the soft component made of wood would then have
to be estimated or determined by calculation, to then eventually for reducing the
wood width slightly for the design in order not to overestimate the relatively soft
material wood (instead of a steel attachment) in terms of pressure perpendicular
to the wood grain.
1. On the underside of the sill, or the rear side of the purlin, a single-sided dowel
of special design (e.g. Geka type C11 or Bulldog type C2) is inserted so that
the shear forces can be transmitted directly in the shear joint between the
concrete and the timber (or concrete and the steel of the dowel of special
design). In this case, no anchor bending has to be considered for the anchor
design with C-FIX. The input is the same as for centric tensile loading.
The proof for the anchor of special design or the connection in the wooden
component must still be provided by the building site.
Fig. 5: Single-sided Geka dowel - dowel type C11 (left); or Bulldog dowel
type C2 (right)
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2. If the connection is made without a special type of dowel on one side, the
verification for the connection in concrete must be carried out with anchor
bending. The load application or the shear force transfer is calculated at half
the height/thickness of the timber component. You can proceed as follows in
C-FIX:
Under the "Base plate" menu tab in the "Stand-off" ribbon, a "Base plate with
non-load-bearing layer" must be selected. The mortar compressive strength
must be entered with a value < 30 N/mm2 - here, for example, 15 N/mm2. In
addition, the thickness of the intermediate layer can be set to 1 mm. The
degree of restraint remains is set to "1", on the safe side.
Fig. 6: Screenshot C-FIX
After that, the base plate thickness in the graphic must be reduced by 1 mm to
bring the total attachment thickness back to 100 mm, so the base plate
thickness is now 99 mm.
Fig 7: Screenshot C-Fix
The calculated lever arm is now summed up with half the anchor diameter
(here: 0.5 x 12 mm) = 6 mm, the interlayer thickness of 1 mm and half the wood
thickness of 99/2 = 49.5 mm to give a total of 56.5 mm.
In reality, the lever arm to be applied would be 56 mm and is therefore
sufficiently accurate with this method - lying on the safe side and taking into
account the correct attachment thickness.
On the structural side, the verification for the sill / purlin must then be carried
out, in particular with regard to the hole reveal in the wood. The displacements
are taken into account by the method of anchor-side bending design (shear load
with lever arm) according to DIN EN 1992-4 on the safe side.
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