Non-Grouted Moment Resisting Base Plate Design for Substation Bus Support Structure
Non-Grouted Moment Resisting Base Plate Design for Substation Bus Support Structure
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I am working on base plate design for bus support structures. I am designing moment resisting base plates for HSS square columns. I am having some issues. I am aware of using 0.95 times the depth and width to determine m and n. The issue that I am having is with designing the base plate without it being supported by grout/concrete. The base plate is on leveling nuts. Based on everything I find in AISC design guide examples (from AISC Design Guide 1 & AISC design examples v13), all of the base plates are resting on concrete and all of the formulas are based on the base plate resisting on concrete to determine bearing pressure.
Would any one happen to have information (an example calculation, reference, design guide, spread sheet etc.) on how to design the base plate without it being supported on grout/concrete? I have designed base plates in the past for other structures, but all of them rested on concrete/grout. This structure is located in a substation. ASCE 113 mentions the design of base plates and the formulas given do not mention concrete strengths. The main issue I am having with the ASCE 113 formulas is the calculation of beff value. My base plate is a square with 4 anchor bolts. The center to center bolt distances are equal. Does AISC have any provisions for base plate that are not supported by concrete? If AISC has any information on non-grouted base plate design that would be preferred. What is the substation industry standard method/design procedure and steps for designing base plates? Any suggestions/comments are appreciated.
Would any one happen to have information (an example calculation, reference, design guide, spread sheet etc.) on how to design the base plate without it being supported on grout/concrete? I have designed base plates in the past for other structures, but all of them rested on concrete/grout. This structure is located in a substation. ASCE 113 mentions the design of base plates and the formulas given do not mention concrete strengths. The main issue I am having with the ASCE 113 formulas is the calculation of beff value. My base plate is a square with 4 anchor bolts. The center to center bolt distances are equal. Does AISC have any provisions for base plate that are not supported by concrete? If AISC has any information on non-grouted base plate design that would be preferred. What is the substation industry standard method/design procedure and steps for designing base plates? Any suggestions/comments are appreciated.






RE: Non-Grouted Moment Resisting Base Plate Design for Substation Bus Support Structure
RE: Non-Grouted Moment Resisting Base Plate Design for Substation Bus Support Structure
Take a look at the design of the large formed steel transmission poles which are supported on leveling nuts and stand several inches above their conc. base. They should be pretty much the same, except for larger size and bigger loads. The base pl. is pretty well supported and stiffened from above by the HSS pole. Then the base pl. acts as a cantilever out to the leveling nuts and the A.B’s. You may think a bit about how much base pl. width has the max. canti. bending stress if the A.B’s. are widely spaced. Otherwise it should be pretty straight forward., a couple btwn. the T&C A.B’s. for the moment, plus the gravity loads. Of course the tension A.B’s. have to be sufficiently embedded in the conc. to take their load, and the found. and pier must take the loads. There may be a slight complication if loads are applied on a diagonal axis, but this might be resolved as Mx, plus My, plus gravity loads.
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ASCE 113 just mentions two equations. One is for determining the force acting on the anchor bolts and the other to determine the thickness of the base plate (BP) steel. Here is the link to ASCE 113 discussion of BP design http://files.engineering.com/getfile.aspx?folder=b... . Since there is no bearing pressure from the concrete to the bottom on the BP I am trying to determine how to design the BP. All the material I have found on BP in AISC is dependent on f'c. Here is a sketch of the type of BP I trying to design http://files.engineering.com/getfile.aspx?folder=4... .
RE: Non-Grouted Moment Resisting Base Plate Design for Substation Bus Support Structure
Would you happen to have any information (examples, references, design guide, etc.) regarding the design of large formed steel transmission poles which are supported on leveling nuts and stand several inches above their conc. base? Is there a link to where I could get this info?
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RE: Non-Grouted Moment Resisting Base Plate Design for Substation Bus Support Structure
In my OP, one of the issues I am having is in determining the beff value. This is mentioned in the document I referenced. As it states on page 103 in that document this value is rather difficult to obtain. I am trying to determine if anyone has any other information. Another way to approach this design.
RE: Non-Grouted Moment Resisting Base Plate Design for Substation Bus Support Structure
RE: Non-Grouted Moment Resisting Base Plate Design for Substation Bus Support Structure
RE: Non-Grouted Moment Resisting Base Plate Design for Substation Bus Support Structure
RE: Non-Grouted Moment Resisting Base Plate Design for Substation Bus Support Structure
I mentioned it in my bus support structure post. The sketch is a template.
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RE: Non-Grouted Moment Resisting Base Plate Design for Substation Bus Support Structure
I have been instructed that for the bus support structures, I will not have corner cuts. Do you have any examples of base plate designs that you have designed?
@mike20793
Thank you for the sketch.
@oldrunner
Right now I am just focus on the design of the base plate. My main goal is to determine away to calculate the req'd base plate thickness due to axial, shear,& moment forces. ASCE 113 appears to have a straight forward way of designing anchor bolts.
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Apparently, it is very common to design anchor bolts without grout for substation structures in the utility industry. I am new to this industry. In the past, when designing base plates I always had grout so I just based all my designs on AISC.
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RE: Non-Grouted Moment Resisting Base Plate Design for Substation Bus Support Structure
The 2016 AISC code is finally going to allow us to use larger hole sizes for the larger diameter anchor bolts so we can finally tell the fabricators what they have been whining for. Remember to keep your anchor bolt projection short enough that anchor bending is not an issue. No, I don't remember the maximum distance to the bottom of the lower nut (2 x anchor diameter?).
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Did I mention they don't like field welding?