نبذة مختصرة : Funding Information: Part of the work was undertaken during a short-term scientific stay by the first author at the Faculty of Engineering (University of Porto) in 2021, with the financial support provided by Programa Propio de I+D+i 2021 de la Universidad Politécnica de Madrid. This work is part of the R&D&I Project PID2020-112954RA-I00 funded by MCIN/AEI/10.13039/501100011033. The authors gratefully acknowledge Fundação para a Ciência e Tecnologia (FCT-MCTES) for the financial support of the Laboratório Associado de Energia, Transportes e Aeronáutica (LAETA) by the project UID/EMS/50022/2020 and the Research and Development Unit for Mechanical and Industrial Engineering (UNIDEMI) by the projects UIDB/00667/2020 and UIDP/00667/2020. Publisher Copyright: © 2024 by the authors. ; In the present work, single- and double-dowel joints following different geometric configurations are experimentally and numerically investigated to derive the splitting behaviour of beech wood (Fagus sylvatica L.), one of the most widespread hardwood species in Europe for structural purposes. The influence of the spacing between dowels, their distance to the supports, and the slenderness of the beams is analysed. The correlation of the experimental failure loads with those predicted numerically by cohesive zone finite element-based models using the fracture properties of the species is discussed. The experimental results are also compared with those obtained from the normative expression included in Eurocode 5 and two other design models reported in the literature. The splitting failure loads predicted by both the analytical and numerical models were found to be conservative, the latter being closer to the experimental values. ; publishersversion ; published
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