The Influence of the Number of Joints on the Size Effect of Shear Strength and Characteristic Strength

Table 4

Shear strength of structural plane with different numbers of joints.

Simulation program	Size of structural plane (mm)	Shear strength of structural plane with different numbers of joints (MPa)
		Program 7	Program 8	Program 9	Program 10	Program 11
		1 joint	3 joints	5 joints	7 joints	9 joints
Program 1	200	224.13	206.15	203.33	199.84	197.65
Program 2	400	111.34	109.28	105.14	97.73	95.64
Program 3	600	71.71	71.29	66.24	65.05	65.23
Program 4	800	56.23	52.32	51.32	50.28	48.92
Program 5	1000	44.28	42.87	42.17	40.64	40.11
Program 6	1200	35.37	34.43	33.94	32.86	32.45