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Behaviour of fasteners and glued-in rods produced from stainless steel

  • Ari Kevarinmäki

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Abstract

In addition to better durability the use of stainless steel improves the fire resistance of connections. The stainless steel has good fire resistance properties. Unprotected stainless steels have enough capacity in fire resistance class R30 and certain titan stabilised grades also in class R60 without overdesign in normal temperature. So the fire protections and/or groovings of the effective cross-sections of timber members for the connections may be avoided with the use of stainless steel. However, also in normal temperature the design rules of timber fasteners are normally given only for the non-alloy steel. The stainless steel
grades have a low 0,2 -yield value (normally 220 N/mm²) but a high tensile strength (even > 800 N/mm²) with the ultimate elongation more than 40%. The paper summarizes the
results of the research done for the verification of the design rules for the stainless steel fasteners in normal temperature. All the tests have been done in VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland and a detailed report will be published in 2005.
Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationCIB-W18 Meeting thirty-seven
Number of pages10
Publication statusPublished - 2004
MoE publication typeA4 Article in a conference publication
EventCIB/W18 Meeting 37 - Edinburgh, United Kingdom
Duration: 30 Aug 20043 Sept 2004

Publication series

SeriesInternational Council for Building Research Studies and Documentation, Working Commission W 18, Timber Structures
Volume37
ISSN0945-6996

Conference

ConferenceCIB/W18 Meeting 37
Country/TerritoryUnited Kingdom
CityEdinburgh
Period30/08/043/09/04

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