When you weld a 1 1/4" dia rod to a 3/4" bar via a slot in the end of bar, looking at the placement, you have a natural flare bevel because of the geometry which you weld first all around allowing full penetration(since the rod diameter is larger than the plate thickness and there is a 1/16" gap...
My concern is more with the gusset connection to the tower leg. I am using a 2-bolt connection. The engineer chose the angle size and assume he designed properly for both tension and compression.
The horizontal redundant brace is being added at the midpoint of a braced bay (tension rods)of an existing guy-tower. The enginner is indicating the connection for this redundant member to be designed for a member force of +/- 12K. The angle size for the redundant is 2 1/2 x 2 1/2 x 1/4 and...
Ron,
The 3/8" plate is a gusset and the 1/2" plate is an end plate on a tension rod. How could you isolate the the shear plane to the point between the plates? Thanks for your response.
If I have a 3/8" plate head side, bolted to a 1/2" plate nut side and I have 1/8" of thread in the 1/2" plate can I still use the shear capacity for an A325X bolt?
The rod will be welded to the end plate approximately 4" from the end of the 12" long plate and from the end of the rod to the first hole it is about 3". This allows the rod to clear the existing gusset and only the bolted connection portion will have full bearing on the gusset. The bolts are...
I have not done calcs in many years and was wondering what I need to check for when designing a bolted end plate for a tension rod (used as bracing for a guy tower). This rod is welded to an end plate (12" long) and the end plate will also have 2-3/4" A325 bolts (spaced 2 3/4" along the line of...
