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Help with lag screw lateral capacity calculation
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Help with lag screw lateral capacity calculation

Help with lag screw lateral capacity calculation

(OP)
Anyone care to take a look through the attached calculation sheet for lateral capacity for a 1/4" diameter lag screw. I think there is an error in the calculation, but I cannot find it. In the attached calculation the controlling yield limit equation is Mode IV which is 105 lbs. However, the value listed in NDS Table 11K is 150 lbs. The online calculator at the American Wood Council website also calculates 150 lbs. Link

I thought maybe the other resources were possibly using the full shank diameter, D, whereas I have used the reduced body diameter, Dr, but I don't think that is the difference.

Can anyone spot where I have gone wrong?

RE: Help with lag screw lateral capacity calculation

(OP)
bridgebuster, thanks for sharing your spreadsheet. It's reassuring that we get similar values. It's not so reassuring that the NDS tables and the AWC calculator give almost 50% higher values.

Curiously, I could not get your spreadsheet to return 107 as you did. Instead I get a marginally higher value of around 114 when I plug my values into your spreadsheet (attached). But 107 or 114 is still much closer to my calculation sheet value of 105 than the 150 in the NDS table.

RE: Help with lag screw lateral capacity calculation

The number you want probably depends on the type of wood. US Forest Products lab in Madison likely has a lot of info on this subject.

RE: Help with lag screw lateral capacity calculation

(OP)
Thanks for your input oldestguy. Per the NDS yield limit equations, the lateral capacity of dowels like nails, bolts, lag screws, etc. is dependent on the specific gravity of the wood species (0.5 for an LVL per the manufacturer in the case of my connection). Both my calc and bridgebuster's have input for the specific gravity of the wood members.

RE: Help with lag screw lateral capacity calculation

Is the NDS value LRFD whereas yours are ASD? I see a factor difference of 1.4 here in 150/107 = 1.4.

Mike McCann, PE, SE (WA)


RE: Help with lag screw lateral capacity calculation

(OP)
msquared48, I think that's just a helluva coincidence. I think the NDS reference design values should be ASD. To convert them to LRFD you have to multiply by a format conversion factor, Kf=3.32, and the resistance factor, phi=0.65.

RE: Help with lag screw lateral capacity calculation

I did a rough calculation and the 151lbf seems right.

RE: Help with lag screw lateral capacity calculation

(OP)
Shu Jiang, thank you for contributing. I see 2 differences between my calc and yours. First, you use D=0.196" from Table L3. I use D=0.173" from Table L2. Table L3 is for wood screws and Table L2 is for lag screws, so I believe your calc is in error in this regard. Second, you use 87,000 psi under the radical which is the dowel bearing strength for steel (i.e. 1.5 times Fu of 58ksi). I use 70,000 psi under the radical which is the bending yield strength, Fy, for 1/4" diameter steel dowels. I checked the yield limit equation for mode IV in Breyor's book and in NDS Table 11.3.1A and both have Fy under the radical, so I believe your calc is in error in this regard also. Do others agree? If so, it is certainly strange that the compounding effect of these two errors results in the value presented in NDS Table 11K.

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