Compared to steel plates, plywood plates are competitive in structural connections due to their low carbon footprint, high tolerance during assembly, relatively low cost, and less prefabrication demand (Kromoser et al. 2021). During the last few decades, plywood depicts its imprint as connections in timber structures such as truss connections, beam-to-column connections, and portal frames (Turnbull and Lefkovitch 1986; Furuheim et al. 2021; Kromoser et al. 2021). Analytical calculation models are essential for better design of birch plywood in portal frame corner joints (Wang et al. 2023a, b). However, the robustness and validity of such analytical models are yet to be examined.
Keywords: birch plywood, glued laminated timber, frame corner joints, timber engineering
Authors
Yue Wang
Building Materials Division, KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, Sweden
Tianxiang Wang
Building Materials Division, KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, Sweden
Mattia Debertolis
Building Materials Division, KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, Sweden
Roberto Crocetti
Building Materials Division, KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, Sweden
Magnus Wålinder
Building Materials Division, KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, Sweden
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