Gradstructengineer
Structural
Hi all, would it be okay to cut the top of a chemset bolt to make it flush with the base plate and plug weld the top of the bolt hole as required? The pinned base plates have been designed for compression, there is no uplift. Therefore, I am thinking the only purpose of the chemset bolts is to fix the base plate to the slab below and so cutting the top of the bolt would be structurally okay.