connections and connectors this presentation is prepared using: structural steel design by mccormac...

Connections and Connectors

This presentation is prepared using:•Structural Steel Design by McCormac and Csernak 2012

•AISC Manul 13th ed (14th )

There are three types of Beam-Column Connection

• Rigid : Able to transfer Shear and Moment

• Simple: Provides for Shear but NOT Moment

• Semi-Rigid: Some of the Moment and ALL Shear

Connections

Bolted Connections

High-strength bolts

A325

A490

A449

Ordinary bolts : A307

Load Transfer and Types of Joints

Lap Joint

Load Transfer and Types of Joints

Butt Joint

Failure of Bolted Joints

Spacing and Edge Distances of Bolts

Spacing and Edge Distances of Bolts

Minimum Spacing (J3-3)

Spacing and Edge Distances of Bolts

Minimum Edge Distance (J3-4)

Spacing and Edge Distances of BoltsMinimum Edge Distance (J3-4)

Spacing and Edge Distances of BoltsMinimum Edge Distance (J3-4)

Spacing and Edge Distances of Bolts

Maximum Spacing of Edge Distance (J3-5)

Shearing StrengthBearing Type Connections

Shearing Strength

Bearing Type Connections

Bearing StrengthBearing Type Connections

AISCS J3.10

Bearing Strength

Bearing Type Connections

AISCS J3.10

Slip-Critical ConnectionsAISCS J3-8

Slip-Critical ConnectionsAISCS J3-8

Slip-Critical ConnectionsAISCS J3-8

Home Work # 11 Problems: 12.1 and 12.27