Hello fellow engineers,
AISC design guide 34
I am designing base connection for a guardrail system. I apply 0.250 kips force on the top rail factored with 1.6 (LRFD), therefore 0.4 kips shear force on top rail. The height of my guardrail system is 42". So I get a moment of 0.4 X42 = 16.8 kip-in...