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As mass timber members increase in size and carry heavier combined loads, their connections must also scale up to meet these demands. Steel strong-back or splice plates ...
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Technical Blogs
MTC Solutions design guides provide essential connection detailing requirements that ensure safe stress transmittance while minimizing the risk of wood splitting. This ...
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Technical Blogs
MTC Solutions design guides provide essential connection detailing requirements that ensure safe stress transmittance while minimizing the risk of wood splitting. This ...
Technical Blogs
To meet safety standards, it is advisable to implement a reduction factor of 0.8 when applying the reference withdrawal design values (RWDVs) for self-tapping screws with an ...
Technical Blogs
Screw crosses, known for their bidirectional resistance, play a pivotal role in transferring lateral forces, especially under reverse loading conditions. This note explores ...
Technical Blogs
Fasteners exhibit reduced withdrawal resistance when installed in the end grain of wood members. Such decrease results primarily from the lower availability of growth rings, ...
Technical Blogs
Modern mass timber construction has gained increasing prestige in recent years. Projects have become more complex, combining traditional designs with modern connections ...
Technical Blogs
This blog post offers designers and installers a step-by-step procedure along side several tips to successfully achieve the installation of the MEGANT beam hanger systems, ...
Technical Blogs
After much thought and prototyping, our Research & Development Team is excited to announce the release of MTC’s latest product in our accessories line up: the MTC ...
Technical Blogs
Approximately 10-minute read. The current state of standardization for mass timber fasteners currently requires us to draw parallels and create analogues to lag screws. In ...
Technical Blogs
Self-tapping screws (STS) were introduced into the market with one of many major benefits over lag screws being that pre-drilling is not required. In many cases one would be ...
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Mass Timber is increasingly being used in larger scale commercial construction on an institutional, industrial, and residential mid to high-rise level. With this comes the ...
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