I'm trying to determine the strength of a full-fusion weld of a deformed bar anchor to a base plate using a stud gun. It's my understanding that there is no additional weld material (such as for a fillet weld), only the metal from the base plate and the anchor. It seems to me that the capacity...
I am designing a link beam in an EBF. The AISC Seismic Provisions supplement states that link stiffeners should have a required strength of AstFy (Ast is the area of the stiffener). My first question is whether to use the vertical area of the stiffener ((d-2tf)*ts) or the horizontal area...