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Are A307 Bolts Weldable?

Are A307 Bolts Weldable?

Are A307 Bolts Weldable?

(OP)
I have anchor bolts that were installed without enough bolt to the clear the top of the base plate.  I speced A36 anchor bolts, but A307 were installed.  The contractor wants to weld the base plate to the anchor bolts, but I don't know if A307 bolts can be welded to the base plate.  Since the structure is already built, a coupling nut will not be easy to install.  Thanks.

RE: Are A307 Bolts Weldable?

A307 bolts are weldable.  Don't know about welding the rod to the base plate though.  I want to say that AISC does not recommend it.  They would prefer a rod extension be full pen welded to the short bolt.  What about a T bolt.  Essentially a coupling nut with a plate on top.

RE: Are A307 Bolts Weldable?

(OP)
This would require them to take the column down, right?  The structure is done, so taking down the column to install anything is not going to be a popular answer.  I don't think welding is a good idea either.

RE: Are A307 Bolts Weldable?

In these cases, I do one of three things:

1.  If the anchor rod projects less than 1/2" above the base plate, full pen weld an extension onto the short anchor rod.

2.  Otherwise, have them fab a 1/4" thick plate with a 1/16" oversize hole centered.  Then they can place this over the rod, and fillet weld the rod to this new plate.  Then they fillet weld the new plate to the base plate.  This works well with the oversize holes used in the base plates, as directly welding the rod to the base plate is basically nearly impossible.  Of course, you would need to check plate stresses in this case.  Also, if you have significant shear loads transfering through the anchor rods, this might not be good, as the weld would be sharing loads with the bolted rods.

3.  If the rod is below the top of the base plate, such that they can not full pen weld, then the last option is to drill a new hole through the base plate and epoxy dowel new anchor rod into the foundation.  Size of rod might need to be adjusted based on allowable strength of the epoxy connection.

Hope this helps some.

Andrew

RE: Are A307 Bolts Weldable?

(OP)
It sounds like in 2 you are saying to weld the A307 bolt to A36 steel.  Is this ok?

RE: Are A307 Bolts Weldable?

I believe A307 is the same steel (i.e. same chemcical coposition as A36), so welding the two should be ok.

RE: Are A307 Bolts Weldable?

Will these anchor bolts be subjected to tension or cyclic tension loading?  If so welding this anchor bolt is not a good idea.

This same situation occurred on one of my projects and it was agreed to replace the anchor bolts by coring them out and reinstalling the anchors.

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