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I am trying to weld to an existing steel anchor bolt with the designation A36 mod 50. I have not been able to find any spec on this material, except the below excerpt from a DOT spec. Does anyone have any information on this material, or know of any weldability concerns/issues? A36M50, a...

For those interested, this was the answer from AISC on the matter. Interaction between shear and normal stresses need not be considered in the design of main members (or connection elements). This has been discussed in committee a number of times and we have always decided to neglect this...

I am determining the required reinforcement(if any) for an existing beam I am adding load to.

Yes, that is correct, bending will be for an elastic section and shear strictly through the web. My concern arose when looking at the stress diagram across the cross section. Shear is practically nothing at the flanges, which is the highest stress in bending. Once you get just below the flange...

I am designing a retrofit in a power plant and I wish to add a single point load to an existing beam. It is a simple span or at least being solved as such so it should be fairly straight forward. However I am having some doubts about the shear and bending allowable not being additive. The...

Does anyone know why, the tabulated values for the shear strength and to a lesser extent the tensile strength of bolts has changed so much. I have been comparing the 9th, 13th and 14th addition of the AISC steel manual and for example, A307 bolt available shear strength(kips), single shear, 9th...

Seems rather clear and most other reviews hint that as well. Thanks you have all been extremely helpful and I really enjoy this site. good work.

The primary use will be to verify and/or identify member sizes with regard to designing conveyor belts. IE. simple repeatable modular tables. Truss sections spanning bents. Bent design and foundation loads(not full design of the foundation), and multiple story towers. Ease of conversion between...

I am relatively new to the structural design industry, however my company is looking to purchase a design program to aide and expedite the process. All the work done now is completely by hand with drawings created in Autocad. The difficulty of the calculations vary, and it is almost entirely...