PLEASE HELP - Moment or Shear Connection ??
PLEASE HELP - Moment or Shear Connection ??
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Hi,
I have to design a five story steel frame for factory/storage. I have modelled it as a BRACED FRAME FROM ALL SIDE WITH ALL MOMENT CONNECTIONS, for the time being.
But i was wondering, as the frame is braced i could change the connections to pinned. OR Periphery Beams to column connection as moment and others as shear?
OR you would suggest something else?
PLEASE LOOK AT THE ATTACHED PICTURE


Thanks in advance,
Student structural engineer
I have to design a five story steel frame for factory/storage. I have modelled it as a BRACED FRAME FROM ALL SIDE WITH ALL MOMENT CONNECTIONS, for the time being.
But i was wondering, as the frame is braced i could change the connections to pinned. OR Periphery Beams to column connection as moment and others as shear?
OR you would suggest something else?
PLEASE LOOK AT THE ATTACHED PICTURE


Thanks in advance,
Student structural engineer






RE: PLEASE HELP - Moment or Shear Connection ??
So it is a uni/college project?
RE: PLEASE HELP - Moment or Shear Connection ??
No, I am interning at a small structural firm. They gave me this project to do.
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Toby
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Dik
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RE: PLEASE HELP - Moment or Shear Connection ??
By the way, be sure you can place the braces as you show them (especially the horizontal/plan bracing on the top floor). Usually in a manufacturing facility (even if it is for storage) you are running into someone else's space with a brace layout like that (i.e. HVAC, piping, etc).