Timber joints with high strength steel dowels

J. W.G. Van De Kuilen, P. A. De Vries

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Abstract

Timber joints with slotted in steel plates and high strength steel fasteners have been tested. Goal of the research was to find out whether the current design equations in Eurocode 5 would also hold for specific high strength steel fasteners with a tensile strength of around 1300 N/mm 2 and a ratio between yield and ultimate strength of about 0.95. In addition, the effect of the number of fasteners in one row has been analysed for joints with 1, 3 and 5 dowels respectively. Since the dowels deformed in a plastic manner, it could be shown that the effective number of fasteners was much higher than currently accounted for in Eurocode 5. The deformation capacity at failure decreased with increased number of fasteners, but joints always gave a plastic failure.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publication10th World Conference on Timber Engineering 2008
Pages1056-1063
Number of pages8
StatePublished - 2008
Externally publishedYes
Event10th World Conference on Timber Engineering 2008 - Miyazaki, Japan
Duration: 2 Jun 20085 Jun 2008

Publication series

Name10th World Conference on Timber Engineering 2008
Volume2

Conference

Conference10th World Conference on Timber Engineering 2008
Country/TerritoryJapan
CityMiyazaki
Period2/06/085/06/08

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