lumber, canoes, kayaks, etc. Our truck racks are clamp-on systems, thus our customers frequently put them on and take them off their trucks. Therefore, some of our screws are tightened and loosened repeatedly. We have used stainless steel screws for many years, but have...
Recently, the authors of [3] investigated the flexural performance of thin-walled steel laminated bamboo truss beams, which showed that increasing the width and height of the beam and the number of self-drilling screws significantly improves the bending resistance of the composite truss beam. ...