Prying action in welded connections
Prying action in welded connections
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p9-10 of AISC Steel Construction Manual 13Ed. covers determination of angle thickness to eliminate prying action when angle is bolted down. How does one determine corresponding thickness when angle is welded down? Any references out there?






RE: Prying action in welded connections
Prying action in bolts can be thought as well be linear, merely an acknowledgement of lever action between bolts and tips when the pull is applied to the end of the lever arm. You can have the same evaluation of the total forces in prying action for a pot weld substituting some lost bolt that had prying action. Yet it wouldn't differ of Pilkey's method, you would be determining just the fx fy fz in the line pot weld.
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Prying action only increases bolt tension loads on a flexible angle. But your angle thickness will need to be sized regardless of welding or bolting.