The Grade-5 hardware provides shear strength, while the heavy 7-gauge wrap-around
connector plate ensures a square and plumb installation with a tighter connection and greater moment resistance.
All Grade-5 hardware provides greater shear strength, and a heavy 7-gauge, wrap-around
connector plate ensures a square and plumb installation with a tighter connection and greater moment resistance.
Work performed by Jacob Nielsen at Aalborg University (Nielsen 1999) shows that partial
connector plate embedment is not usually uniform and that often greater partial embedment is found at the center of the
connector plate, even when the plate appears to be fully embedded.
The company states it combines the versatility of selecting the most suitable fluid, air, data and electrical couplings from their wide range and fitting these onto a single, easy to use, space saving
connector plate. There are over six million possible configurations.
Its US Ferguson arm has disposed of two businesses and Wolseley France has sold a metal
connector plate and anchor design and manufacturing business.
Since the objective of this study was to compare the performance of a specific
connector plate between blue-stained and non-stained wood rather than to establish a design capacity, several modifications were made to the CSA S347-99 standard procedures.