This research focuses on the layered timber beam used in the “Odaka Community Center” constructed in Minamisoma City, Fukushima Prefecture. Shearing experiments of the inclined screw joints connecting the timber layers and a bending experiments of the full-scale layered beam are conducted. A comparison between the initial stiffness of the layered beam and a non-layered beam show an increase, confirming the layering effect. The results from the full-scale layered beam are compared and verified with numerical simulations from an analytical elastic model, displaying similar trends.
