W GIrder to HSS beam connection

[joengineering]

Hello,

Please see attachment. This is the best idea for the connection. It does have a big eccentricity but the connection works. But also, is it possible to cope an HSS beam like usually done for W beams.

Thank You

 

[mtuhusky]

Yes. It is possible. The company I work for works almost exclusively with HSS tube and pipe and we regularly call out notches and copes. The cope can be cut with a hand plasma torch but will be much cleaner if cut on a CNC tube laser machine.

 

[KootK]

You can cope HSS at mtuhusky has described. I like your idea better though. I don't think that you have any eccentricity unless you're planning to do this on one side only. The plates are just flexurally continuous extensions of the HSS. For moderate loads a good solution is a WT welded to the HSS and connected to a shear tab coming off the wide flange. Concentric and cheap.

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