Pull-out Resistance Parallel to Grain of Threaded Steel Rod Glued-in Glubam with Edge Distance Variation

: This study aimed to obtain the pull-out resistance parallel to the grain of the threaded steel rod glued-in glubam with various edge distances. The wood structures, both for connection and for reinforcement, used glued-in rods connection. However, there was no research on the application of glued-in-rod into the connection of structural elements from glued laminated bamboo (glubam) due to lack of information on the basic characteristics of the glued-in rod on laminated bamboo. This experiment tested the pull-out resistance and stiffness of the threaded steel rod bounded parallel to the grain in laminated bamboo with varying edge distances. The dimension of laminated bamboo specimens were100 × 100 × 100 mm, the threaded steel rod diameter was 10 mm, the drill hole diameter was 14 mm and this research used sikadur 732 as the adhesive. This experiment made eight various edge distances: 1d; 1.5d; 2d; 2.5d; 3d; 3.5d; 4d; and 4.5d, with d as the threaded steel rod diameter and made five replicas of each variation. The results showed that the 3d edge distance or greater had the constant pull-out resistance while less than 3d edge distance had less pull-out resistance. The slip modulus for the threaded steel rod glued-in glubam in this study was not influenced by edge distance with a range 3.732 kN/mm to 7.768 kN/mm.