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This paper reports the investigation made on the timber beam jointed with adhesively bonded-in pultruded rod into timber by using a various parameters such as different types of timber (Keruing and White Meranti) and number of rods. The aim of this study is to determine the best configuration of the joint by varying the number of rods. Pull-out tests of bonded-in rod specimens were conducted (at parallel and perpendicular to grain) in order to determine the shear strength capacity of the adhesively bonded-in joint. Meanwhile the tensile tests of jointed beam were conducted for determining the joint strength of the beam jointed with adhesively pultruded rods. The tests were conducted in accordance with ASTM D5764: 1995. The limitations of this study are; rod size is 8 mm and glueline thickness is 2 mm based on previous study. The shear strength of the bonded joint increases as the density increases. For tensile test, the results show that as the number of connectors increase, the joint capacity also increases.
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We would like to thank all the technical staffs in heavy structure laboratory, Faculty of Civil Engineering for their assistance. Gratitude also extended to the final year students who helped in manufacturing the samples.
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Ahmad, Z., Kazeroon, R.A. (2016). The Joint Strength of Timber Connected with Adhesively Bonded-in GFRP Rod. In: Yusoff, M., Hamid, N., Arshad, M., Arshad, A., Ridzuan, A., Awang, H. (eds) InCIEC 2015. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-10-0155-0_71
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