STEEL CONNECTION HELP!

[NAFTALI-HAKOHEN]

hi wondering how much of width of triangular plate takes the compression load from beam above, in corbel style connection
im designing:

how wide is the design strip to take the compression?

and how do i calculate lateral compression length for a triangle like this- kind of laterally supported along its length?

thanks

naftali

 

[skeletron]

Probably treat it similar to the bearing on a web format (10t+N) calculations.

 

[MIStructE_IRE]

A BS5950 book I have says 100mm is reasonable - and picks it out of thin air!

 

[dik]

Why so many horizontal bolts? 28? seems a little overkill...

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-Dik

 

[JoshPlumSE]

The closet similar thing I can think of is the stiffener plate in Bolted Extended End Plate Moment connections (see AISC Design Guide #4).

In that design guide examples, AISC does two checks on the stiffener:
1) Min thickness required for stiffener = thickness of beam web * (Fy_beam / Fy_stiffener)
2) b/t > 0.56*sqrt (E/Fy).... which is, I believe, based on the b/t slenderness limit for the flange of a wide flange under uniform compression.

If you follow those requirements, I believe the stiffener will not be subject to local buckling.