ELEMENT EXPERIMENTS ON THE DOWEL OF WOOD SIDING WALL IN TRADITIONAL WOOD STRUCTURES

Abstract

It is well-known that the dowel plays the very important roles in the wood siding wall system in the traditional wood structures. In this paper, element experiments on the dowel of siding wall are performed under monotonous and cyclic loadings, and the influence of length, depth and the shape of the section of the dowel on the elasto-plastic characteristics as the transmission device are investigated and discussed. Also, the dowels composed of the wood and the lead are presented and examined, compared with the ordinary wooded ones.