I am designing a lifting padeye for a jacket. The main plate thickness comes up to about 100mm and the cheek plate is about 50mm. I specified through thickness property for both the main plate and cheek plate. My client wants to know why through thickness property is required for the plates...
I am desiging a bolting system that is subjected to waves loads. I specified a pretension force of 21 kips on a 1 inch diameter bolt with locknuts
However, AISC specification for structural steel buildings - allowable stress design and plastic design, Table J3.7 says that the bolts need to be...