Paper No. ST/2003/023877 “Long-Term Behavior of Timber-Concrete
Composite Beams. I: Finite Element Modeling and Validation” by Massimo
Fragiacomo and Ario Ceccotti
List of corrections
1) Page 1, footnote: Change the affiliation of the first author as follows:
Senior Lecturer, Dept. of Civil Engineering, Univ. of Canterbury, Private Bag 4800,
Christchurch 8020, New Zealand. E-mail: massimo.fragiacomo@canterbury.ac.nz
2) Page 1, right column, 3rd paragraph, 6th line: change “static scheme” into “case”.
3) Page 2, left column, par. “Kinematic hypothesis”, 3rd bullet points: change “crosssections” into “cross sections”.
4) Page 2, right column, eq. (6): change “ (t   /  c n ) ” into  (t   ) /  c n .
5) Page 3, right column, eq. (13): change “[ 1  e
(( t  ) /  wn )

]” into 1  e
( t  ) /  w n 
.
6) Page 3, right column, below eq. (13): change “kelvin” in “Kelvin”.
7) Page 3, right column, eq. (14): change “[ 1  e
8) Page 4, left column, eq. (15): change “ e
 c
 f
(  ( t  ) /  f n )
]” into 1  e (t  ) /  f n  .
 du (1 )  ” into “ exp  c  t du ( ) ”.
f 
1
t

9) Page 4, left column, par. “The solving linear system”, 5th line: add “(Fragiacomo
2005)” after “the trapezoidal rule for every step k”.
10) Page 4, right column, par. “Effect of environmental thermohygrometric
variations”, 3rd line: change “thermo-hygrometric” into “thermohygrometric”.
11) Page 6, left column, par. “Florence test”, 2nd line above the end of page: add “the”
before “sunrise”.
11) Page 7, left column, 2nd par., 11th line: change “inertia” into “area”.
12) Page 8, left column, 1st line at the top: change “such differences” into “such a
difference”.
13) Fig. 9: change the whole figure since the ordinate of the top figure, T [°C], is
missing (refer to the MS Word file sent by e-mail).
1
40
30
20
10
0
-10
T [°C]
t [years]
0
1
2
3
4
5
(a)
0.18
0.17
0.16
0.15
0.14
0.13
u [-]
t [years]
0
1
2
3
4
5
(b)
Fig. 9. (a) Adopted environmental temperature
history and (b) measured timber moisture content
history for the EMPA test
14) Page 10: add the following reference:
Fragiacomo, M. (2005). “A finite element model for long-term analysis of timberconcrete composite beams.” Structural Engineering & Mechanics, 20(2), 173-189.
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