Most design standards and guidelines from AASHTO, ASCE and AISC allow flexure in the anchor bolt to be ignored if the distance between the top of concrete and the bottom of the base plate is less than ...

The bottom flanges of two tapered plate girders at San ... but also the twin girders’ design detail at the site of the brittle fractures. The AISC team will also look into a similar girder ...

Work on additional connections is underway, says AISC. The connections included in 2016 are the reduced beam section; the bolted stiffened and unstiffened extended end-plate; the bolted flange ...