I have four lifting lugs on a skid. The lugs are unstiffened vertical flat plates (with cheek plates) that go through the flange of the skid member and weld to the top flange, bottom flange, and web of the skid member (lug is aligned with the web of the skid member). The skid is being lifted...
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I have an HSS in a polygon shape which has a stitch bolted piece of reinforcement (channel) being added (built-up section). The section has an axial load but it is very small in magnitude when compared to the moment. Chapter F13 of AISC 13th...
I have an HSS in a polygon shape which has a stitch bolted piece of reinforcement (channel) being added (built-up section). The section has an axial load but it is very small in magnitude when compared to the moment. Chapter F13 of AISC 13th Edition refers me to E6 and D4 for bolt spacing...
I have a mind bender for everyone. We have an annular plate at the base of a thin shelled tubular structure. The base is usually unstiffened. When this fails, we try one stiffener per bolt and change the method of calculation to PL/6 (partially fixed) between stiffeners and then size the...