Connection Design 1

[hm5k]

Hello Friends,

I am looking for you help on following points, please share information or any technical reference for the same.

1. connection design basic requirement check list.
2. Connection design process or flow chart.
3. Sample connection design spread sheet format.
4. Selection of connection check list

 

[Ingenuity]

Connecting what to what? Steel, concrete, timber, aluminium?

Need more info!!

 

[hm5k]

Connection for Steel to Steel

 

[SteelPE]

I don't think I have even seen a flow chart for designing steel connections. You just basically need to check all of the failure modes of the connection...... and unlike the design of a beam or column which have a limited number of failure modes, there are many failure modes when designing connections. Then add in the fact that there are many different ways (at least 5 I can think of) to connect beam to a girder and coming up with a one size fits all process is almost impossible.

 

[cliff234]

basic check list,

1. Memorize and understand AISC 360
2. Understand all there is to know about connection design (or work under the supervision of someone who is).

I hope you don't take offense to my answer, but connection design is not something that you can do (with no prior experience) simply by following a checklist.

 

[bridgebuster]

Design examples prepared by AISC

http://www.aisc.org/WorkArea/showcontent.aspx?id=29596

 

[hm5k]

Thanks for your response friends,

Yes, connection design required experience and it has to be done under expert supervision.
Also checklist will help to understand requirements & important point that need to keep in mind while connection designing & that will help to connection designers as well as new comers.

Please share your points to develop some checklist or documents.

 

[KootK]

Your best bet is to read through AISC 360, as suggested, and note all of the possible failure modes. Then you can share the checklist with us!

I've found the AISC seismic design manual to be one of the best connection references around, even for non-seismic applications.

Other places to look are Akbar Tamboli's connection design handbook and anything written by Thornton or Muir in the last couple of decades (particularly uniform force method). For HSS connections, look into Packer's work. For bolt behavior, it's Kulak. For welding, I like Miller. For old school, bad-ass equilibrium based connection design, you can't beat Blodgett.

You're going to find that steel connection design is a much deeper rabbit whole than is steel member design. It's pretty neat / scary.

If you narrow the scope of your question, I suspect that you'll get more helpful answers. For example, simple, right angle single angle connections can be pretty much reduced to a checklist of failure modes and a spreadsheet.

The greatest trick that bond stress ever pulled was convincing the world it didn't exist.

 

[dik]

Access Steel from the UK has a lot of design sheets, but, to Eurocode... They have detailed information as well as flowcharts on doing the sums...

Dik

 

[TehMightyEngineer]

I'll second KootK and the others. Specifically the AISC examples in the seismic design manual and the accompanying CD for the regular design manual will give you very good examples to follow for 90% of all connections. However, if you're not doing a regular building then your connections can be quite different from the examples and a thorough understanding of AISC 360 will be your only hope there. Don't forget fatigue as well.

Maine EIT, Civil/Structural.

 

[hm5k]

thanks for your replay this information very helpful to me.

I will share documents, checklist once final, so we can improve them.