Allowable Stress Formula / Equation #
Allowable Stress Formula / Equation #
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Guys,
Sorry to ask these questions. With your help I am trying to understand the code & learn the calc procedure.
On one reference calcs i have it says:
ALLOWABLE UNIT STRESSES - 6063-T6 Aluminum Alloy
Allowable Bending Stress: Within 1" of weld
Fa = 18000 x 1.33 x 0.85 = 20349 PSI
Allowable Bending Stress: Greater than 1" from weld
Fa =18000 x 1.33 =23940 PSI
Questions :
1. On the underlined formula, I believe that 0.85 is got to do something about the 85% of the allowable stress. Not sure what the 1.33 is? I couldn't find which of the equation#/formula was used to develop 18000 x 1.33 x 0.85.
2. I believe in the table 6-1 & 6-2 of LTS-6 there is 3 different stresses on the table. Tension, Compression, Shear & bearing. Which of these 4 should be used for Bending?
3. On 6-1 & 6-2 I did not see 18ksi(18000 psi) any where for 6063 alloy. Any idea how this might have obtained?
Thanks
GC
Sorry to ask these questions. With your help I am trying to understand the code & learn the calc procedure.
On one reference calcs i have it says:
ALLOWABLE UNIT STRESSES - 6063-T6 Aluminum Alloy
Allowable Bending Stress: Within 1" of weld
Fa = 18000 x 1.33 x 0.85 = 20349 PSI
Allowable Bending Stress: Greater than 1" from weld
Fa =18000 x 1.33 =23940 PSI
Questions :
1. On the underlined formula, I believe that 0.85 is got to do something about the 85% of the allowable stress. Not sure what the 1.33 is? I couldn't find which of the equation#/formula was used to develop 18000 x 1.33 x 0.85.
2. I believe in the table 6-1 & 6-2 of LTS-6 there is 3 different stresses on the table. Tension, Compression, Shear & bearing. Which of these 4 should be used for Bending?
3. On 6-1 & 6-2 I did not see 18ksi(18000 psi) any where for 6063 alloy. Any idea how this might have obtained?
Thanks
GC





RE: Allowable Stress Formula / Equation #
RE: Allowable Stress Formula / Equation #
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Even in 2013 (LTS-6) also these tables remain same.
RE: Allowable Stress Formula / Equation #
The allowable bending stress is your 18ksi or whatever you adjust it by. It's not the other four.
The 18ksi would be 0.6*Fy so roughly 0.6*31=18.6ksi. Hope this helps.
RE: Allowable Stress Formula / Equation #
Its now clear why we multiply by 1.33. I recognized this on the table 3.4.1 - Group load combination.
GL2 & GL3 require 133%. Thanks for directing me.
Based on this, Fa = (0.6 Fy) x 1.33 x 0.85
Am I right?
I wish there was a equation reference number. (I would like documenting it while calculating for debugging)
I am putting one together. But, just checking, if any of you have a spread sheet available.
RE: Allowable Stress Formula / Equation #
Like I said I'm doing this from memory, but I don't believe you need the 0.85. I think that's more of a book keeping issue. For instance if you have a calc set up that always allows for the 33% increase you don't need the 0.85 but if you have an load case where the increase isn't allowed then you need to use the 0.85 to offset the increase.
I think the 0.85 corresponds to an increase of 15% and 0.75 is for a 33% increase.
RE: Allowable Stress Formula / Equation #
After a bit more reading, here is what I understood so far.
I believe that 0.85 is got to do with 85% of allowable stress. This is applicable to only 1" from the welded connection though.
There are 4 types of stress to calculate & check.
- Allowable Bending stress within 1" of weld. FB
- Allowable Axial Compressive stress within 1" of weld. FA
- Allowable Shear stress within 1" of weld. Fv
- Allowable Shear stress greater than 1" from weld. Fv
0.85 (85%) reduction of allowable stress is applicable to only the 1-3. The last one will used the allowable stress as-is.One thing I didn't follow is that the Shear stress is tied to "h/t <= 39 ratio". Not sure how to do this. Is this height of the total pole/ thickness of the pole. This doesn't make sense. if the pole is 10 ft tall with 0.25in wall. Thats will be
120in/0.25in = 480
I am sure that I am not doing this right. Any reference / example to read about this.
Thanks
GC
RE: Allowable Stress Formula / Equation #
RE: Allowable Stress Formula / Equation #
When you have a moment, can you see if I am doing this right, please.
At this point, I am concerned only about h/t. There are 2 segments of pole :
Pole drawing :
Thanks,
GC