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Gang-Nail Construction: A Rational Way of Fabricating Roof Trusses for Urban and Rural Housing
Abstract
The application of punched metal plates in timber construction is a new development, which has gone a long way to rationalise the fabrication of joints in timber engineering. What has hitherto been produced with a lot of labour and time consuming hammering can now be easily and quickly produced by using a punched metal plate with the help of a simple hydraulic press. The joint remains tightly fixed years on end. Furthermore the cost advantages are enormous. One of the most popular punched metal plate is the GANG-NAIL, the structural aspects of which, and the general principles of design and calculation of truss-plated joints are outlined in this paper.
