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Timber Frame Tension Joinery - Timber Frame Engineering Council

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half-timber<br />

a traditional name for a common European framing system<br />

which used timbers that were split in half<br />

housing<br />

linear potentiometer<br />

a cavity large enough to hold the entire timber’s end<br />

an electronic device that measures displacements by returning<br />

a voltage signal that changes relative to the displacement<br />

longitudinal direction<br />

l v<br />

along the centerline of the tree (parallel to the grain)<br />

the distance from the center of the peg to the end of the<br />

tenon, end distance<br />

Mode II<br />

a single shear failure mode in which the peg rotates through<br />

both members<br />

Mode III<br />

a single or double shear failure mode in which the peg rotates<br />

through the main or side member(s) and a plastic hinge forms<br />

in the other member(s)<br />

Mode I<br />

a single or double shear failure mode in which dowel bearing<br />

failures occur in either the main or side member(s)<br />

Mode IV<br />

a single or double shear failure mode in which plastic hinges<br />

occur in the main and side member(s)<br />

Mode V<br />

Mode VI<br />

Mode VII<br />

mortise<br />

NDS<br />

a peg shear failure mode<br />

a failure mode in which the relish fails in shear<br />

a failure mode caused by mortise splitting<br />

a hole cut into a member in which the tenon is fit<br />

The National Design Specification for Wood Construction<br />

(see Bibliography)<br />

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