Carving joints for wood constructions. Calculation models

Abstract

Romania is the only country in the world that has a large patrimony of wooden churches. These churches are historic monuments. Over the years, these buildings have been subjected to many actions that led to a degradation of structural elements and also to the degradation of joints between structural elements. Carving joints are predominant for this type of buildings. For the rehabilitation of this type of joints it is necessary to restore them and implicitly to know their behaviour and failure modes.
The article presents the evaluation of wood carving joints with simple threshold using analytical calculation and numerical modelling.