An important factor affecting the strength and ultimate load of wood structures is the strength, stiffness and durability of its joints. Therefore, the behavior of nailed joints must be given proper consideration when designing and analyzing wood structures. Presently,formulas for determining the strength of nailed joints under withdrawal loads, as...
Nailed connections have nonlinear load-displacement
relations. Modeling these connections in an assembled
structure would require a great amount of computational time
because of the large number of degrees of freedom.
Replacing these connections with energetically-equivalent
nonlinear springs reduces the number of degrees of freedom,
and leads to computational efficiency in...