Glulam connections assembled with screws in different installation angles

• David Hanna ^[1] ; Thomas Tannert ^[1]
  1. [1] University of Northern British Columbia

     University of Northern British Columbia

     Canadá

     
• Localización: Maderas: Ciencia y tecnología, ISSN 0717-3644, ISSN-e 0718-221X, Vol. 23, Nº. 1, 2021
• Idioma: inglés
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  • Self-tapping screws are the recognized state-of-the-art in fastener technology for timber structures. Combining fasteners of different stiffness, such as self-tapping screws with different installation angles, can be advantageous to simultaneously achieve high connection stiffness and ductility. In this paper, experimental investigations on a total of 65 glued-laminated timber joints assembled with a variety of installation angles including several combinations of self-tapping screws acting axially in withdrawal with self-tapping screws acting laterally are presented. The connection performance was analyzed in terms of the load-carrying capacity, the deformation capacity, the stiffness, and the ductility. The findings demonstrated that joint assemblies with self-tapping screws loaded primarily laterally exhibit low stiffness but high ductility, whereas joint assemblies with self-tapping screws loaded primarily in withdrawal are very stiff but exhibit low ductility. Combining screws in different installation angles created glued-laminated timber connections that combine high stiffness with high ductility. Existing analytical expressions were deemed suitable to estimate load-carrying capacity through simple summation of the different screws’ individual resistances