The two-way action of Cross Laminated Timber (CLT) is often ignored in the design of CLT due to its complexity. But in some cases, for example, large span timber floor/roof, the benefit of taking the two-way action into account may be considerable since it is often deflection controlled in the design...
Effects of Arrangement of Steel Plates on Strength of Dowel-Type Cross Laminated Timber Joints with Two Slotted-In Steel Plates Subjected to Lateral Force
Cross-laminated timber (CLT) has received particular attention as a structural material, and its material and joint strengths have been researched. This study derived a strength formula for dowel-type CLT joints with slottedin two steel plates, based on Johansen’s yield theory. When the steel plate is inserted in CLT that has five laminae, the...
Investigations showed that large timber members exposed to fire have excellent fire-resistance. But very little research has been done on the performance of connections in timber structures exposed to fire. The dowel-type connections with slotted-in steel plates have widely been used in timber structures, sometime as moment resisting...
The concept of combining folded thin steel plates and glued laminated timber in the beam element to gain increased structural and fire performances was developed at the Institute of Structural Design and Timber Engineering (ITI) in Vienna University of Technology...
The objective of this research is to develop a model to predict the distribution of loads within connections with multiple self-tapping screw fasteners and steel side plates, and use this model to predict the strength and stiffness of multiple-inclined self-tapping screw connections. These results would facilitate the design of large scale connections with long rows of self-tapping screw fasteners, such as may be used for mass timber shear wall connections or splice joints for long-span timber beams.
The load distribution in multi-dowel timber connections under bending moments was investigated by means of an integrative evaluation of a hierarchically organized test program, which encompassed component tests as well as single-dowel and multi-dowel connection tests. It was demonstrated that the anisotropic material...
In this study, five full-scale bolted glulam beam-to-beam connections with slotted-in steel plates were conducted under a third-point loading, and a three-dimensional finite element method based model was also established to investigate the failure modes and moment resistance of such connections...
This paper presents an experimental study on dowelled connections in cross-laminated timber (CLT) and laminated veneer lumber (LVL) using 20-mm mild steel dowels and internal steel plates. Connections designed to fail in brittle row shear and group tear-out were tested under monotonic loading...
