Steel detailing - Pass Through Forces
Steel detailing - Pass Through Forces
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I have to design connection details for X-braces connected to beams and columns.
Member sizes, Tension and Compression brace-forces are given.
Can someone suggest where I can find references (link, codes etc.) for pass through forces through the joint, how do we design it etc.
Member sizes, Tension and Compression brace-forces are given.
Can someone suggest where I can find references (link, codes etc.) for pass through forces through the joint, how do we design it etc.






RE: Steel detailing - Pass Through Forces
Google "Uniform Force Method" and "Whitmore Section" and you should find some helpful resources. You can look at the companion disk to the AISC manual and it has some solved example problems for bracing connections.
RE: Steel detailing - Pass Through Forces
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RE: Steel detailing - Pass Through Forces
Do you happen to have a copy of that presentation on transfer forces? If so, could you please email it to me?
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RE: Steel detailing - Pass Through Forces
http://www.FerrellEngineering.com
RE: Steel detailing - Pass Through Forces
As connectegr stated Bill Thornton has a good general discourse on the subject which was published in EJ:
http://www.aisc.org/store/p-893-connections-art-science-and-information-in-the-quest-for.aspx
Bo Doswell also wrote a more recent EJ article on the subject that gets a bit more into the technical aspects:
http://www.aisc.org/store/p-2032-transfer-forces-in-steel-structures.aspx
As far as presenting them to the connection engineer, the appendix to the forthcoming (as yet unpublished) AISC Design Guide on Braced Connection Design gives some guidance as far as how to distill the number of load cases down to a few reasonable cases to present. Hopefully that will come out within the year.