TESTS OF GUSSET PLATE MODELS

THE RESEARCH PROGRAM EXPLORED EXPERIMENTALLY THE MEANS OF GATHERING INFORMATION ABOUT THE STRESS DISTRIBUTION WITHIN GUSSET PLATES. OF THE VARIOUS JOINING METHODS, BOLTING WAS CHOSEN. TWO LOAD CONDITIONS, ONE WHICH CORRESPONDS TO HIGH CHORD FORCES AND ANOTHER WHICH CORRESPONDS TO HIGH WEB FORCES WERE SELECTED. THREE MODES OF LOAD TRANSFER WERE INVESTIGATED ANALYTICALLY AND THE CASE OF LOAD TRANSFER THROUGH THE BOUNDARY OF THE PLATES WAS ALSO INCLUDED IN VIEW OF ITS IMPORTANCE IN JUDGING THE APPLICABILITY OF PHOTOELASTIC MODELS. OF THE AVAILABLE FINITE ELEMENT METHODS TWO WERE COMPARED. SMALL SCALE PHOTOELASTIC MODELS ALSO WERE TESTED AND COMPARED TO THE STEEL MODELS. FROM THE COMPARISON OF THE EXPERIMENTAL RESULTS AND THE ANALYTICAL DATA, IT APPEARS THAT LARGE MODEL TESTS ARE NOT LIKELY TO YIELD MUCH MORE INFORMATION THAN THE PROPER COMBINATION OF SMALL MODEL TESTS AND MODERN NUMERICAL METHODS. THE PRESENT DATA SHOW THAT AN ASSUMED LOAD TRANSFER THROUGH THE BOUNDARY OF THE PLATE WILL STILL NOT SIGNIFICANTLY CHANGE THE INTERNAL STRESS DISTRIBUTION PATTERN IN THE PLATE. /ASCE/

• Supplemental Notes:
  • Vol 97, No ST 2, PROC PAPER 7901, PP 665-678, 11 FIG, TAB,
• Authors:
  • Vasarhelyi, D D
• Publication Date: 1971-2

Media Info

• Serial:
  • Journal of the Structural Division
  • Publisher: American Society of Civil Engineers

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Bolted joints; Bolting; Bolts; Deformation curve; Experiments; Gusset plates; Joints; Load transfer; Loads; Photoelasticity; Steel structures; Structural engineering; Testing
• Uncontrolled Terms: Boundaries; Experimental data; Loading
• Old TRIS Terms: Photoelastic studies
• Subject Areas: Bridges and other structures; Highways;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 00209398
• Record Type: Publication
• Files: TRIS
• Created Date: May 10 1971 12:00AM