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    shear tab with axial load

    Thanks connectegr. You are correct we do have through plates for the vast majority of these connections. The only exception is where we have pass-through forces crossing each other. Do you have a recommended detail for this situation? We have concrete filled columns so compression is not an...
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    shear tab with axial load

    I am currently debating a similar situation with a steel fabricator's connection engineer. We have a large pass-through axial force adjacent to a brace bay combined with the shear in the beam. The resulting connection has 4 columns and 4 rows of bolts. I am trying to check the extended shear...

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