For finger shims used in the erection of steelwork, often these have slots to allow them to either be installed horizontally or vertically as required. For the case of an endplate splice or some variant of a plate to plate connection, you may have the scenario when you have a slotted shim...
Ok now I know that welding of high strength bolts is rarely if ever permitted. Grade 8.8 (830MPa ultimate tensile strength) is the common bolt grade we use. Does anyone know of any good texts/industry guides/academic references that explain in detail what goes on when you weld high strength...
From mechanics, torsion in I beams has 2 components, the warping component (force couple between flanges causing flanges to bend about their local major axes) and St Venant torsion. In the Eurocode for the design of torsion in an open section, it states that the St Venant component of the...
I have a query similar to the lines of thread507-384790. Regarding confinement to the core of high strength concrete shear walls as well as restraint of longitudinal reinforcement, concrete codes typically require some form of ties to be detailed at boundary regions, with longitudinal bars...
