Assessing the Bolted Connection Strength of New Zealand Hardwood

• Main Authors: Abdul Razak, Abdul Karim, Quenneville, Pierre, Norazzlina, M.Sa‘don, Ingham, Jason M.
• Format: Book Chapter
• Language: English
• Published: New Zealand Society for Earthquake Engineering 2010
• Subjects: TA Engineering (General). Civil engineering (General)
• Online Access: http://ir.unimas.my/id/eprint/31703/1/Assessing%20%20the%20%20Bolted%20%20Connection%20%20Strength%20%20of%20%20New%20%20Zealand%20Hardwood.pdf; http://ir.unimas.my/id/eprint/31703/

From published literature, it was found that through-bolt connections were typically applied as a retrofit technique to most New Zealand unreinforced masonry (URM) buildings following the 1931 Hawke’s Bay earthquake. As connection failure by tearing out part of the diaphragm joist was observed in pa...