Hi all,
Can anyone tell me if this connection is normal practice.
This column has a plate on and picks up 2 twin bolted beams coming in at 90 degrees, as can be seen here...
The beam that comes in from the left sits directly ontop of the column welded to the plate. The beam coming in from behind the column in the picture above has its web notched into the other beam sitting on the column. At a different picture angle, this is the beam coming in from the right in this pic...
What I want to understand is if welding (only) is considered a sufficiently strong enough connection and normal practice in these instances?
As you can just see, the bottom flange of the beam is welded at the edge of the plate and is only on that plate by a few mm. The flange is then cut and web notched into the other beam and welded to it's flange...
This is the back side of the web where you can see the incoming notched brand have been welded into...
This is the underside...
Basically, other than a few mm welded to the base plate of the column only the web welded to the web of the other beam is maintaining this connection.
I have a meeting with building control next week and plan to ask him, yet I would assume he would have picked this up already if he felt it was an issue.
Thanks in advance.
Can anyone tell me if this connection is normal practice.
This column has a plate on and picks up 2 twin bolted beams coming in at 90 degrees, as can be seen here...
The beam that comes in from the left sits directly ontop of the column welded to the plate. The beam coming in from behind the column in the picture above has its web notched into the other beam sitting on the column. At a different picture angle, this is the beam coming in from the right in this pic...
What I want to understand is if welding (only) is considered a sufficiently strong enough connection and normal practice in these instances?
As you can just see, the bottom flange of the beam is welded at the edge of the plate and is only on that plate by a few mm. The flange is then cut and web notched into the other beam and welded to it's flange...
This is the back side of the web where you can see the incoming notched brand have been welded into...
This is the underside...
Basically, other than a few mm welded to the base plate of the column only the web welded to the web of the other beam is maintaining this connection.
I have a meeting with building control next week and plan to ask him, yet I would assume he would have picked this up already if he felt it was an issue.
Thanks in advance.