Steel Column Cap Plate Design

Applied to the column member s and bolted to the beam or rafter especially cap plate connections in mezzanine floor structures.

Steel column cap plate design.

The design examples provide coverage of all applicable limit states whether or not a. 6 tie back design. Typical beam flange connection with upper column and stiffener plates. Crane girder design 5 crane column cap plates allow girder end rotation avoid thick cap plates place the bolts outside of the column flanges.

Typical column cap plate connection without stiffener plates. Please contact the structural engineer involved with your project before you order your steel to make sure you have the correct cap and base plates for your columns. Hss column cap plate connections limit state of wall local yielding. Detailing requirements design procedures worked examples and.

Max column cap plate thickness 1 2 and 3 16 min. All pipe columns need to be designed by a qualified designer. Cap and base or end plate column splices are covered in chapter 6 of the green book. Ccos minimum column diameter is 3.

If cap and base plate splices are located away from a point of restraint special consideration should be given to ensuring adequate stiffness so that the member design is not invalidated. Base plate material is a36 steel and concrete compressive strength is 3 ksi. Design a base plate given that the column dead load is 100 kips and live load is 150 kips. A w10 x 49 column is supported by a concrete pier whose top surface is 19 inches x 19 inches.

Do not use knee braces allow for adjustment in placing the crane girder. Design examples v14 0 american institute of steel construction iii preface the primary objective of these design examples is to provide illustrations of the use of the 2010 aisc specification for structural steel buildings ansi aisc 360 10 and the 14th edition of the aisc steel construction manual.