I have a structural steel project where the contractor is requesting to do some thermal cutting in the field, specifically to make the slot in HSS braces longer and/or wider. Our specs of course say that thermal cutting in the field is not allowed, but due to the quantities of steel and...
winelandv,
You mentioned that you've run the analysis on the plate across section b-b before. To what did you compare your axial & bending stresses? The V14.1 Design Examples problem II.C-5 didn't have any axial or moment stresses on the section b-b, but it mentions (pg IIC-69) that if N'...