Thank you! I had actually looked in Blodgett when starting to try and figure this out and must have skipped right over the chapter. Do you know where the assumption of an L/6 compressive bearing length comes from? It doesn't state in Blodgett or AISC, and I don't have access to Salmon and Johnson.
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I have a question regarding the derivation of the weld capacity for double angle connections per AISC 13th edition page 10-11. I am trying to figure out where the 12.96 coefficient comes from. According to the...