EXPERIMENTAL STUDY ON FLEXURAL-SHEAR BEHAVIOR OF MORTISE-TENON JOINT WITH DOWEL

Experimental Study on Flexural Behavior of Precast Concrete Shear Walls with Vertical Joint

Shrink-fitting and dowel welding in mortise and tenon structural wood joints

Shrink-fitting, a common bonding technique in metal assemblies, was used for mortise and tenon wood joints. The joints had considerable strength. Shrink-fitting yielded joint strengths comparable to those obtained by using several welded dowels. Increasing the number of welded dowels, however, produced joints of higher strength than those bonded just by shrink-fitting. Combining in the same joi...

Withdrawal, shear, and bending moment capacities of round mortise and tenon timber framing joints

Many forest stands in this country as well as in numerous underdeveloped countries, are overstocked with small-diameter trees (Wolfe 2000, Wolfe and Moseley 2000). These trees pose both a health hazard and a fire hazard to the forests, and excess stems should be removed, but presently they have too little market value to justify their removal. Before these stems are utilized, value-added produc...

Experimental Study on New-typed Prefabricated Shear Walls with Vertical Joint Under Different Shear Span Ratio

The results show that the shear span ratio has significant effect on the mechanical behavior of the new-typed prefabricated shear walls, and the new-typed prefabricated shear walls have good ductility, all the ductility factors are greater than 4.0. The study also proves that the construction of the vertical joint is reasonable and its connection property is reliable. The vertical joint which c...

Performance tests of small barn frame constructed with round mortise and tenon joints

Structural tests were conducted to determine the strength and deflection characteristics of an 8 by 10 foot light-timber barn frame constructed with 3.5-inch square Douglas-fir members and round mortise and tenon joints. Structural analyses of the frame were also conducted using finite element methods and predicted deflections compared with test values. Results of the tests indicated that the r...