Steel Buildings in Europe

Title APPENDIX A Worked Example: Design of a continuous chord connection using splice plate connections 20 of 24 5 - 73 Flange component Figure A.12 shows for each bolt how the factors b  and 1 k are determined.  b k 1 k 1 k 1 k 1  b,end k 1,end  b,inner k 1,end  b,inner k 1,end  b,end k 1,end  b,inner k 1,end  b,inner k 1,end F V,h,Ed b 1 b 2 b 3 b 4 b 5 b 6 Figure A.12 Connection of the flanges – Flange component – Determination of type of bolts For all the bolts: k 1,end = 1,80. For the bolt b 1 and b 4 : 0,94 b,end   174,19kN Rd,f b,  F For the other bolts: 0, 72 b,inner   134,19kN Rd,f b,  F In the end for the flange component, the minimum value is retained: 134,19kN Rd,f b,  F Plate component For all the bolts, k 1,end = 1,80. For the bolt b 3 and b 6 : 0, 49 b,end   90,32kN b,Rd,p  F