Design data on gusset and flitch plates
Design data on gusset and flitch plates
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Hello,
Can someone recommend literature that contains design information, ie. moments, shear, etc., on steel gusset plates and flitch plates when applied to existing wood members.
Thanks,
John G.
Can someone recommend literature that contains design information, ie. moments, shear, etc., on steel gusset plates and flitch plates when applied to existing wood members.
Thanks,
John G.






RE: Design data on gusset and flitch plates
Nailing can give you what on tension and shear.
The gussets nowadays you can very well model in FEM for an initial imperfection then add P delta and if non large deflection it is not buckling.
Never was necessary so, it was customary use some width at the free edge if triangular and use K=0.75 for KL when checking for buckling. I is still current practice. Seating plates in bending you can dimension M/W or M/S or so.
RE: Design data on gusset and flitch plates
RE: Design data on gusset and flitch plates
It saddens me a bit because I feel you really stand far more advanced than me in structural knowledge, and so I can't see very well why you feel uncozy on the use of off the shelf FEM for every application they may be used for...there are excellent modelling programs and they ease -as they can- much the burden of the structural designers, so I encourage its use for whichever the thing our imagination guides us.
The initial imperfection modelling thing for example, for a pony truss better than for this case, may be an expedient way of contrasting whichever tabulated info on the pony truss I have in another way, and to proceed to direct design/check of the members that in other way will be more cumbersome, er, inefficient...and precisely one of the things I am more interested in (see if 2 opinions coincide or not, and be efficient).
Have my best wishes in any case, Qshake.