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Experimental analysis on small-scale finger-jointed specimens at elevated temperatures

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Finger joints have to meet strength performance requirements for the use in structural engineered wood products such as glued-laminated timber beams (glulam). Among these, the thermal stability of the adhesive used in the finger joint is an important criterion to determine the suitability of the connection. The influence of adhesives on the load-carrying capacity of glulam beams and finger-jointed members can be assessed by large-scale fire tests; however, there are obvious benefits in using small-scale specimens tested at elevated temperatures as an alternative. In Europe, there is currently no small-scale test available to test the fire performance of adhesives in structural timber members. The work presented in this paper addresses this issue and was supported by members of a European standardisation committee to develop such a small-scale test. This paper presents, as a first step, the results of a series of tensile tests on small-scale finger-jointed specimens tested at elevated temperatures. The tests were performed with different types of adhesives which are currently also tested in large-scale fire tests. In the small-scale tests here, structural adhesives showed nearly no weaknesses with increasing temperature up to 140 °C. Further, MUF and PRF adhesives showed mostly wood failure even up to temperatures of 220 °C. In the next step of this investigation, the results obtained from the small-scale tests at elevated temperature will be compared to large-scale fire test results in order to find a possible link between both testing methods.

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    Michael Klippel & Andrea Frangi

  2. ETH Zurich, Institute of Building Materials, Schafmattstrasse 6, 8093, Zurich, Switzerland

    Sebastian Clauß

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Klippel, M., Clauß, S. & Frangi, A. Experimental analysis on small-scale finger-jointed specimens at elevated temperatures. Eur. J. Wood Prod. 72, 535–545 (2014). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00107-014-0810-z

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