In typical steel beam pockets into concrete or masonry walls, the void is generally grouted solid. AISC commentary mentions that web crippling equations are generally conservative because the tests used to derive the formulas were conducted on bare steel beams without the expected beneficial...
If they're gravity columns with negligible moments, could you not just run the design on a few standard column/baseplate configurations and figure out max loadings to create a table that you can use in the future? Then when you have more complex loadings or configurations, you jump back into the...
That makes sense. The connection(s) would need to be analyzed as an extended configuration unless the EOR indicated the beam was analyzed for the induced moment, correct?
Lately, I've been designing steel connections on a few projects. I've seen several typical details from engineers indicating full depth transverse stiffeners to be provided in the web of beams supporting gravity columns from above, regardless of load magnitude. Transverse stiffeners are typical...
A podium building (4 wood over 2 concrete) that I am assisting in designing requires a thermal break roughly through the center of the structure due to the size of building. For lateral design, if there is a thermal break I would typically design each portion of the building as a separate...
