Feasibility study of New Zealand radiata pine crosslaminated timber

This study demonstrates that it is possible to constructCLT using New Zealand grown Radiata pine.Brittle mode failures were found, as is typical for timber.Failures typically occurred on the tension edge of theslab. Additionally there were planes of rolling shearwithin the cross-wise layers.Prediction methodologies evaluated found that thosewhich incorporated rolling shear were more accurate,particularly that by Blass & Fellmoser [3]. Correlation ofMOE values obtained by sonic testing were correlated tobending strengths following methods by Walford [20].