You could look at the CIDECT Design Guides. Design Guide 1 for CHS chords and Design Guide 3 for RHS chords
Also Eurocode 3 EN 1993-1-8 could be a reference
Further to the thread below looking at alternative calculation software, I stumbled across another possible contender call Tech Editor.
https://dystlab.store/en/techeditor
I haven't tried it but the website blurb sounded promising. Unlike SMath, which is Russia based, this one appears...
It's for the part of the cross section you are considering. Outstand for the flanges and internal part for the web. You would calculate the stress distribution in the flanges and the web and then class each part of the cross section. Depending on your loading you will have a different alpha...
Does every company do this?
Mine has done it twice now changing to Nuance before reverting back to Adobe; and then changing to NitroPro before reverting back to Adobe again.
I believe you calculate alpha from the actual stress distribution in the member cross section. So under axial and bending you need to calculate the point at which the stress changes from tension to compression. This gives you alpha. It is the same in EC3.
You might want to try these:
ISO 19903:2019 Petroleum and natural gas industries – Concrete offshore structures
DNV-ST-C502 Offshore Concrete Structures
Current document would be Ciria C755.
You can purchase it here.
https://www.ciria.org/ItemDetail?iProductCode=C755D&Category=DOWNLOAD&WebsiteKey=3f18c87a-d62b-4eca-8ef4-9b09309c1c91
Thanks phamENG
This is included in one of the references:
§ 127.310 Where rails required.
(a) Each vessel must have permanently installed efficient guard rails or bulwarks on decks and bridges. Each rail or bulwark must stand at least 1 meter (39 1/2 inches) from the deck except that, where...
I am looking for some pointers to the correct US standards for the design of stairs, access platforms, walkways and handrails.
I have had a look at the OSHA website but I'm finding it difficult to sort through the information, and I'm not even sure I'm in the correct place.
I'm based in the UK...
Dik
These references might be of some use.
Steel Tube Institute
RECTANGULAR HSS CONNECTIONS CLOSE TO A CHORD END
by Jeffrey A. Packer
Bahen/Tanenbaum Professor of Civil
Engineering, University of Toronto,
Ontario, Canada
RHS-to-RHS axially loaded X-connections near an open chord enc
by Fan...
You could take at look at DNV 2.7-1, which is the DNV standard for offshore containers. Its currently number is DNV-ST-E271.
1.1 Introduction
This standard provides a framework for the certification of offshore containers and may be used to
demonstrate compliance with International Maritime...
The company I work for has the same approach as bugbus. It's just one level above Senior, and there are still levels above Principal (Specialist, Consultant) so it isn't even that high a level. We have lots and lots of Principals and none of them have any control/stake in the company. I'm in...
I would also think they would get damaged by lawn mowing equipment.
We also used to use Mortsafes
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mortsafe
Although the original driver for these has long gone.