Welding-through doweling of wood panels

Panel products have been joined to levels satisfying the requirements of the relevant standards for metallic connector assemblies by rotation welding of beech dowels through them. The wood panels substrates such as particleboard, OSB and MDF welded to the dowels almost as well as solid timber. Welded-through dowel assemblies presented better stiffness of the test joints than similar assemblies of dowelled solid timber.