The urgency of developing more sustainable building materials and methods is obvious. Thus, novel building materials such as paper are gaining relevance. Until now, paper in buildings has been used primarily in furniture construction or for temporary structures. The insights resulting from these applications and additional research show that paper also has considerable potential as a building material for permanent load-bearing structures.

For a holistic consideration of paper as a building material, joining techniques must be examined, among other things. Often, glued papers cannot be recycled after their lifespan. For this reason, mechanical fasteners for paper construction should be considered. The goal of this work is to investigate shear-bearing connections of mechanical fasteners in paper both experimentally and numerically/analytically.