Open AccessBehaviour of steel beam-column connections, made using bolted end plates
Author(s) -
Neil David Johnstone,
Warren R. Walpole
Publication year - 1982
Publication title -
bulletin of the new zealand society for earthquake engineering/nzsee quarterly bulletin
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.917
H-Index - 36
eISSN - 2324-1543
pISSN - 1174-9857
DOI - 10.5459/bnzsee.15.2.82-92
Subject(s) - structural engineering , welding , cruciform , framing (construction) , joint (building) , beam (structure) , column (typography) , engineering , steel frame , materials science , composite material , connection (principal bundle)
Simulated earthquake loading was applied to four cruciform specimens, that represented part of a multistorey frame, including the half-beams and half-columns framing into a typical interior joint. This was made by welding plates on to the ends of the beams and bolting these plates to the column flanges using high strength proof loaded bolts. The joints were designed so that recommendations, previously developed elsewhere for monotonic loading, together with the rules given by New Zealand Standard 3404:1977, could be studied. When the existing rules were followed ductile specimens were obtained; however, when some of the joints were deliberately designed to be understrength, failure modes were obtained that were not predicted by the existing simple design methods.