Failure Modes of Bolted Steel-Wood-Steel Connections Loaded Parallel-to-Grain

Abstract:

Bolted steel-wood-steel connection is an important fashion of connections in timber structure, the manners of failure loaded parallel-to-grain include bearing, row shear-out, group tear-out and splitting, and the brittle failure modes are predominant in some tested results of bolted connections specimens. End distance, bolt spacing, row spacing and the thickness of wood have important influence on the failure modes, and meanwhile, the bolt diameter can not be neglected. Based on the different failure fashion, the equations of strength were given.

• Periodical: Applied Mechanics and Materials (Volumes 256-259)
• Pages: 652-656
• DOI: https://doi.org/10.4028/www.scientific.net/AMM.256-259.652
• Online since: December 2012
• Authors: Jun Wen Zhou, Dong Sheng Huang, Wen Hu Li, Ai Hua Liu, Wei Cheng Shi
• Keywords: Bolt, Bolt Spacing, Brittle, Connection, Ductile, Failure Mode, Row Spacing

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