Ideas on this Connection 1

[BengalEngineer]

I am designing this connection

http://img88.imageshack.us/img88/3904/beams1fz2.th.png

Im using Descon, but it only can design the connection for the main plane. But i also have two braces comming into the joint in another plane. Any ideas on how i can get these connected to the joint?

 

[btrueblood]

With a bracket?

 

[hokie66]

Gusset plates. Are you designing the connection, or is a computer program doing it? If you rely solely on a program, no need to come looking for assistance when the program doesn't work. You need to understand the design yourself.

 

[BengalEngineer]

Well, i am having the computer to design the general layout. Then I am going to design the connection and welding. Every book i have been reading about welding only talks about simple connections.

Where can i go to research advanced connections where 7, 8 members coming to a single point?

 

[hogan666]

Try looking at some of the API offshore specs.

 

[BengalEngineer]

Where can i find these?

 

[strider6]

http://www.api.org/Standards/

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Corrosion Prevention & Corrosion Control

 

[chicopee]

See if you can do a search on space frame connections.

 

[Tmoose]

The FAA Aircraft repair manual has some details on joints made with multiple intersecting tubes.
Fitting and welding can be tough.

http://www.taikong.cn/UpLoadFiles/Other/2007-12/2007120819581425966.jpg

 

[arto]

try Troitsky's "Tubular Steel Structures" & AWS D1.1 for "K" joints