Structural performance of rounded dovetail connections: experimental and numerical investigations

Rounded Dovetail Connections (RDC) are a relatively new wood-to-wood connection concept that, despite the lack of design guidance in standards, has become popular in timber construction due to the widespread of modern milling machinery. Because of the anisotropic nature of wood and the complex stress-strain state in RDC, the question of their dimensioning is very complex. Experimental and numerical investigations were carried out on full scale...