I have an inverted tee that requires quite a bit of hanger reinforcement designed under AASHTO. I'm currently designing the section for four legs of stirrups fairly evenly spaced across the cross section.
LRFD 9th Ed., Art. 5.8.4.3.5 mentions that the arrangement for hanger reinforcement in...
I am designing a pin connection in single shear as shown in the attached image. Does the applied bearing stress need to include the moment decouple that occurs inside the individual steel plates that keeps the pin from rotating? From my calculations, this causes the bearing stress to more than...