DefinePK

Abstract

Timber as a material in the construction industry gets more and more into the foreground for the construction of various structures. To improve the properties of timber, new composite materials or new joints, which ensure better bearing capacity and stiffness of the structure, are developed. One of the uses of timber is, among other things, the construction of hall buildings, where are interesting frame connections, which are joints of the diaphragm beam and frame column. The timber frame connections can be solved in several ways, for example by means of glued rods, toothed - plate joints, by means of pinned joints and a frame connection made by a V-shaped frame column. In common practice, these are the types of joints between the diaphragm beam and the frame column. However, the object of this article is a frame connection where the connection of the frame column and the diaphragm beam is created by means of the Rothoblaas VGS11400 screws, which are not normally used as fasteners for this type of joint. The reason for choosing this fastener is to find out how it behaves in this type of construction and to compare it with normative documents, taking into account the use of this type of joint in practice.