Fiber reinforced polymer (FRP) material is widely used in high end areas,such as aerospace and marine engineering,which presents a great potential to civil infrastructure.The introduction of glass fiber further reduces cost and passive influence on environment.Compared with steel,GFRP exhibit similar strength in pultruded direction but with less density and high corrosion resistance.However,the relative low elastic modulus and shear strength pose threat to structural stiffness and bolted connection respectively.The low material elastic modulus can be tackled by the space frame configuration with inherent high structural stiffness.An innovatively designed steel joint seems can solve the connection problem which incorporates one end of a steel tubular connector (see Fig.l(a)) into the tubular GFRP member through adhesive bonding while the other end is flattened to connect with Octatube space frame node (Ramaswamy et al.,2002)(see Fig.1 (c)).The large shear area of adhesive bonding between steel connector and GFRP profile can compensate the deficiency of shear strength.Meanwhile,the bolted connection between steel components remains the preferred connection method due to the assembly and disassembly convenience.Moreover,the steel connectors and nodal joints may bring in the ductility which brittle GFRP component can impossibly provide.Figure 1 (b) and (d) demonstrate a single member and a space frame unit adopting the innovative joint.