Moment Resisting Timber Connections

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Moment Resisting Timber Connections
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Moment connection types
Beam splice
Beam to column connection
Corner connection
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A few principles of connection design

• Keep the load path as direct as possible
• Connect the loaded fibres
• Avoid tension perpendicular to grain stresses
• Make use of compression load transfer as much as
  possible
• Use steel elements when tension load transfer is
  necessary

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Moment resisting ridge connection
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Beam splice
C
C
T
T
compression plate
tension plate
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Moment splices
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Beam splices
embedded steel rods
compression plate
tension plate
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Beam splice with shear plates
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Moment splice with embedded rods
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Corner connection
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Corner connection
compression web
tension web
Shear can readily be transferred through bearing
plates
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Corner connection
Connection with shear
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Moment connection with embedded rods
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Corner connection
Large moments
Connection with shear
Embedded rods
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Embedded rod connections
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Moment connections with embedded rods
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Corner connection

• A less desirable connection
• Causes tension perpendicular to grain
• Two connections with eccentricity

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Bolted steel plate moment connections
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Sandwiched corner connection

• A less desirable connection
• Causes tension perpendicular to grain

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Sandwiched connection with inside riveted steel
plates
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Embedded steel plate connection with dowels
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Beam to column connection
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A series of complex moment connections
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Moment resistant mortise and tenon connection
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Load transfer through mortise and tenon connection
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Japanese temple connection
wedge
beam
column
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HSS column
Steel plate welded to HSS column
Glulam beam
Glulam rivets