I'm analyzing the bolted connection at the base of a drilling mast. It's a symmetrical 4-bolt connection. There is tension (uplift) and a moment. There's also shear, but it doesn't significantly influence the allowable interaction equation. This is not the typical steel base plate bolted to...
I have a “square tube column to H-beam” connection that consists of an H-beam resting on top of a square tube column. The beam ends at the column. There will be a base plate welded to the top of the tube and bolted to the bottom flange of the beam. There are no beam moments or beam axial...
I have a pair of parallel beams that I'd like to brace with a flat steel plate (of at least 3/16" thickness) spanning between them. This plate would be continuously welded to the top flanges of the beams, and also to any cross-beams that might exist. This plate would also have angles welded...
