EXPERIMENTAL RRESEARCH ON THIN STEEL PLATE-TO- TIMBER JOINTS

There is a need of new cost-effective elements of timber structures due to increasing de- mand for individual residential houses. Accordingly, we developed a new design of the com- posite beam with corrugated steel web. Timber flanges with the steel web fit together by the dowel joint, the calculation of which requires clarification by means of the introduction of a design coefficient. The paper presents the main results of an experimental research on thin steel plate-to-timber symmetrical dowel joints. The paper concluded with design coefficients for formulas for determining the bearing capacity of thin steel plate-to-timber dowel joints under short term loads which obtained from results of the experiment

composite timber beams, steel web, timber flanges, steel dowel, symmetri- cal dowel connection