Abstract
ABSTRACT This paper presents large-scale bending test, up to 19 m length, on glued laminated timber (GLT) beams with well-known beam setup and a model to predict the tensile strength of finger joint connections (FJ). Machine graded timber boards, with information about the dynamic stiffness and local knottiness were used to fabricate 12 GLT beams. The position of the timber boards were tracked throughout the GLT fabrication. To quantify the quality of the FJ additional FJ were fabricated and tested in tension. Based on the results, a model to predict their strength properties based on the grading information of the involved timber boards was developed using maximum likelihood estimation for censored data.
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