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Bolted Splice Connection

This document describes the design of a bolted splice connection according to AISC 360-16 standards. It investigates the strength of bolts in shear and bearing, and the plate material in tension. The connection is loaded by tension to utilize the bolts at 100% shear strength. Manual calculations are shown checking bolt shear strength, bearing strength, and plate tension strength. IDEA StatiCa software is also used to analyze the connection, finding similar results to the manual calculations with less than 1% difference.

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Bolted Splice Connection

This document describes the design of a bolted splice connection according to AISC 360-16 standards. It investigates the strength of bolts in shear and bearing, and the plate material in tension. The connection is loaded by tension to utilize the bolts at 100% shear strength. Manual calculations are shown checking bolt shear strength, bearing strength, and plate tension strength. IDEA StatiCa software is also used to analyze the connection, finding similar results to the manual calculations with less than 1% difference.

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Bolted splice connection


Subcode: LRFD

Type of connection: Bolted splice connection

Unit system: Metric

Designed acc. to: AISC 360-16

Investigated: Bolts in shear and bearing

Plate material: A709, Gr. 50

Bolts: 5/8'' A307

Geometry

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Applied load

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Bolted splice connection is loaded by tension for the bolts in shear to be utilized at
100 %.

Procedure
Concentrically loaded splice bolted connection is designed so that bolts fail in shear
(AISC 360-16 – J3.6). Bolt strength in bearing (AISC 360-16 – J3.10) and strength of
plates in tension (AISC 360-16 – J4.1) are also checked. The bolt threads are
intercepted by the shear plane.

Manual calculation

Bolt strength

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The resistance of one shear plane of one bolt in shear is 27.6 kN. Each bolt has two
shear planes and there are 9 bolts at each half of the splice. The resistance is therefore
2 ∙ 9 ∙ 27.6 = 496.7 kN.

The bearing strength and tearout strength resist the force acting on both shear planes,
i.e. 2 ∙ 27.6 = 55.2 kN. The smallest strength is the tearout strength of bolts near the
edge of connected plates with the thickness of 10 mm, 121 kN. Other bolts have bearing
strength of 128.1 kN and the decisive is the plate with the thickness of 10 mm. The sum
of thicknesses of splices resisting in bearing is 12 mm.

Strength of plates in tension

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There are some tensile forces in bolts due to plate deformation. Bolts are utilized at
99.9 % and plates are yielding. From the plastic strain at the connected plate, it can be
seen that the reserve is not very high.

Comparison
The tensile forces in bolts are neglected in manual calculation but they do not affect the
shear strength of bolts by much. The load resistance in IDEA StatiCa Connection is
494 kN while in manual calculation, it is 496 kN. In IDEA StatiCa Connection, bolts are
decisive and the plates are yielding. In manual calculation, Do
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rupture have the same load resistance. The difference between results provided by
software and manual calculation is only 0.4 %.

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