Computer Simulation On Mortise-tenon Joints Of Chinese Ancient Timber Buildings

Chinese traditional architecture holds a very important position in the world with its timber structure, long history, large quantity, complex structure, rich scientific and cultural content, and excellent seismic behaviors. A kind of extremely unique construction appears during the developing process of timber structure system which is named swallow-tailed mortise-tenon structure.The study of the structural properties and seismic performance of swallow-tailed mortise-tenon structure is important for maintaining and protecting Chinese ancient timber buildings. The editor compiles this paper with the intent of analyzing swallow-tailed mortise-tenon structure with the finite element analysis software (ANSYS). It could get an assessment about Accuracy and reliability of the results analysis for swallow-tailed mortise-tenon structure model with the software (ANSYS).Destructive forms and stress condition is concluded according to the analysis of FEM. The swallow-tailed mortise-tenon structure model have been simulated by using the finite element software ANSYS and the feasibility of the simulation were verified.