Engineered wood products (EWPs) are being increasingly used as construction materials. EWPs currently made using synthetic adhesives or metal fasteners, which lead to poor recyclability and reusability. Therefore, this review paper focused on emerging adhesive- metal-free assembling techniques including dowels, rotary-dowel welding, wooden nails, dovetail joining alternative ways of making pref...

In Portland Cement Concrete (PCC) pavement of the roads, dowels bar transfers vehicle loading to the unloaded slab. Load Transfer Efficiency (LTE) is used to evaluate dowel bars in PCC pavement. This parameter is defined as the vertical displacement ratio of the loaded slab versus the unloaded slab. In this study, the impact of effective factors (friction coefficient between dowel and concrete ...

This study aimed to design and evaluate the detachable corner joints used in wooden furniture frames, including a commonly joint (control) form using mortise tenon with plug reinforcement three novel proposed joints, i.e., I ~ III, which adopted in-line double-hole nuts, metal sheet connector, embedded nuts screws respectively, via numerical experimental methods. The analysis results indicated ...

This study investigated the effect of a crown-lengthening ferrule on the fracture resistance of endodontically-treated teeth restored with two dowel-core systems. Thirty-two extracted mandibular first premolars were sectioned perpendicular to the long axis at a point 1.0 mm occlusal to the buccal cementoenamel junction. Following endodontic treatment, the teeth were randomly assigned to four gr...