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Timber Joints Loaded Perpendicular to the Grain: Long-Term Strength, Theory and Experiments

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Joints play a very great role in timber structures and it is important to have effective methods to calculate their load-carrying capacity and the deformations.

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  1. Danish Building Research Institute and Lund University, Postboks 119, DK 2970, Horsholm, Denmark

    H. J. Larsen

  2. Structural Mechanics, Lund University, Box 118, S 221 00, Lund, Sweden

    P. J. Gustafsson

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  1. Institute of Steel Structures, Department of Civil Engineering, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Thessaloniki, Greece

    C. C. Baniotopoulos

  2. Department of Steel Structures, Czech Technical University, Prague, Czech Republic

    F. Wald

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Larsen, H.J., Gustafsson, P.J. (2000). Timber Joints Loaded Perpendicular to the Grain: Long-Term Strength, Theory and Experiments. In: Baniotopoulos, C.C., Wald, F. (eds) The Paramount Role of Joints into the Reliable Response of Structures. NATO Science Series, vol 4. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-010-0950-8_35

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