Timber Framers Guild Forums General General Forum Questions peg placement

I think there was a talk at one conference, not sure if it was an engineering pre-conference workshop or a regular conference presentations, but the speaker, an engineer, said that the method he used to calculate the spacing of pegs was based on load. He would figure the load and then what size metal bolt would be needed to hold that load and use that diameter for the spacing of the 4D 4D 3D stuff and then place a larger diameter peg that has the same strength capacity as the bolt in that location.

Basically use the metal size for determining the spacing but use a peg for the actual fastener.

I'm not sure if I've explained it correctly or not.
Hope that helps.