Fasteners & Repair
Fasteners & Repair
(OP)
In installing a DMS sign, mounting holes were driven at the wrong location at a bottom truss. Would drilling new holes at the correct location and filling the unused holes with high strength bolts be an acceptable repair?
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RE: Fasteners & Repair
RE: Fasteners & Repair
For your instruction, please show me how "filling the unused holes" (in the beam) with bolts would restore the strength of the original beam's web or flange.
I can think of only one unusual set of circumstances where that idea "might" work.
RE: Fasteners & Repair
RE: Fasteners & Repair
Tunalover
RE: Fasteners & Repair
http://www.txdot.gov/inside-txdot/division/constru...
RE: Fasteners & Repair
Regardless of what DMS means for OP's job, the engineer on record needs to approve that "repair". Otherwise a plug will need to be put into the hole and welded in.