I also should have mentioned I am a steel fabricator, so we don't have much choice when it comes to members. It's a typical detail for a beam to frame into relatively light HSS column that continues through the beam to the next story.
Then you add a braced bay to that, and I have a large...
Part of my question is when you add a plate behind that single plate shear connection because the column wall isn't thick enough for the shear/axial loads from the beam or beam & brace, how do you design that plate?
Also when you have a large shear force in a beam into the side of a HSS column...
I'm looking for a guide to designing connections (shear and shear/axial) connections to HSS columns.
The Canadian guides are very simplistic, basically checking punching shear for a shear tab, and that is all.
Does anyone have any suggestions?
