1. Moment Resisting Timber Connections

2. Moment connection types
Beam splice
Beam to column connection
Corner connection

3. A few principles of connection design
Keep the load path as direct as possible
Connect the loaded fibres
Avoid tension perpendicular to grain stresses
Make use of compression load transfer as much as possible
Use steel elements when tension load transfer is necessary

4. Moment resisting ridge connection

5. Beam splice C C T T
compression plate
tension plate

6. Moment splices

7. Beam splices
embedded steel rods
compression plate
tension plate

8. Beam splice with shear plates

10. Moment splice with embedded rods

11. Corner connection

12. Corner connection compression web tension web
Shear can readily be transferred through bearing plates

13. Corner connection
Connection with shear

14. Moment connection with embedded rods

15. Corner connection
Large moments
Connection with shear
Embedded rods

16. Embedded rod connections

17. Moment connections with embedded rods

18. Corner connection A less desirable connection
Causes tension perpendicular to grain
Two connections with eccentricity

19. Bolted steel plate moment connections

20. Sandwiched corner connection
A less desirable connection
Causes tension perpendicular to grain

21. Sandwiched connection with inside riveted steel plates

22. Embedded steel plate connection with dowels

23. Beam to column connection
Type C

24. A series of complex moment connections

25. Moment resistant mortise and tenon connection

26. Load transfer through mortise and tenon connection

27. Japanese temple connection
wedge
beam
column

28. HSS
column
Steel plate welded to HSS column
Glulam beam
Glulam rivets