Design of Steel Structures

11

Bolted Connections

11.1 Introduction

The fundamentals of bolted connections are presented in Chapter 2. In this chapter, bolted connections subjected to combined actions such as shear, twisting or bending are considered. The types of connections considered include bracket connections, beam-to-column end connections and splicing of beams. Bolted connections have certain advantages over welded connections even though they require holes to be made in the parts to be connected. The foremost of these advantages is the ease with which bolted connections can be made especially in the field i.e., during erection since doing quality welding in the field is very difficult. The problems of misalignment and misfit between the connecting parts during erection ...