the support considerably reduce the load-carrying capacity of glued laminated (glulam)
timber beams due to the stress concentrations around the notch corner. Further, the failure
mechanism is brittle, influenced by several parameters and affected by large uncertainties.
Thus, notched beams are often reinforced. The present research report was written as a PhD
thesis (ETH Dissertation Nr. 21825) by Robert Jockwer and shows the results of a …