TY - JOUR AU - Husam Wadi AU - Sebastien Mercadier AU - Frederic Duprat AU - Thomas De Larrard AU - Zakaria Djamai PY - 2022/06/07 Y2 - 2024/03/28 TI - Mechanical behavior of connections in timber gridshells structure JF - Academic Journal of Civil Engineering JA - AJCE VL - 40 IS - 1 SE - RUGC 2022 DO - 10.26168/ajce.40.1.35 UR - https://journal.augc.asso.fr/index.php/ajce/article/view/3037 AB - This study focuses on the mechanical behaviour and performance of connections in the timber gridshells. Two different forms of timber beams are used, the first was consisting of timber beam of gridshells without connection, and the second was with steel connection that was fabricated by the Quaternion company in France. These two forms of timber beams are those most widely used as a main beams in gridshells structures. In this paper, an experimental investigation of large-scale timber beam of the gridshells with dimensions (2.8m length) are used. The timber beams were tested under four-points flexural test at the laboratory of LMDC in Toulouse. Also, the total rigidity of the connection was investigated experimentally. ER -