Connection Design
Connection Design
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Hello Friends,
I am looking for you help on following points, please share information or any technical reference for the same.
1. connection design basic requirement check list.
2. Connection design process or flow chart.
3. Sample connection design spread sheet format.
4. Selection of connection check list
I am looking for you help on following points, please share information or any technical reference for the same.
1. connection design basic requirement check list.
2. Connection design process or flow chart.
3. Sample connection design spread sheet format.
4. Selection of connection check list






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Need more info!!
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1. Memorize and understand AISC 360
2. Understand all there is to know about connection design (or work under the supervision of someone who is).
I hope you don't take offense to my answer, but connection design is not something that you can do (with no prior experience) simply by following a checklist.
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Design examples prepared by AISC
http://www.aisc.org/WorkArea/showcontent.aspx?id=2...
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Yes, connection design required experience and it has to be done under expert supervision.
Also checklist will help to understand requirements & important point that need to keep in mind while connection designing & that will help to connection designers as well as new comers.
Please share your points to develop some checklist or documents.
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I've found the AISC seismic design manual to be one of the best connection references around, even for non-seismic applications.
Other places to look are Akbar Tamboli's connection design handbook and anything written by Thornton or Muir in the last couple of decades (particularly uniform force method). For HSS connections, look into Packer's work. For bolt behavior, it's Kulak. For welding, I like Miller. For old school, bad-ass equilibrium based connection design, you can't beat Blodgett.
You're going to find that steel connection design is a much deeper rabbit whole than is steel member design. It's pretty neat / scary.
If you narrow the scope of your question, I suspect that you'll get more helpful answers. For example, simple, right angle single angle connections can be pretty much reduced to a checklist of failure modes and a spreadsheet.
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Maine EIT, Civil/Structural.
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I will share documents, checklist once final, so we can improve them.