Does Ram connection consider shear value for Base plate design ?
Sure, we design anchors or shear lugs according to various design codes.
Wants to know whether shear value in consideration during base plate design not anchors.
Hello Andrew, RAM Connection base plate design is based on the AISC DG 1. As it is mentioned in the design guide, the interaction for tension and shear is done following the ACI 318 approach for both steel and concrete limit states. Could you please point out the section on the DG1 with your requirement.
3.5.3 of DG1 talks about Shear in Anchor Rods (pages 28-29). There is also example 4.11 starting on page 44. I am referring to AISC DG1 (2nd Edition) for the page references. 3.5.4 refers to an interaction in the concrete rather than the steel. Although ACI 318 still has an interaction equation which would consider anchor bolt steel strength, it just calculates the capacities differently and is less conservative than AISC DG1.
Hello Andrew, for anchoring to concrete RAM Connection is based on ACI 318 Appendix D and now Chapter 17 where the shear and tension interaction is done under ACI 17.8. Therefore, RAM Connection is not checking the shear and tension according to AISC 360-16 Sec J3.7. If this is something you usually do, we can log an enhancement and provide an option to perform this check for AISC base plates.
This is something that I typically do. It would be very beneficial if RAM Connection was able to do this also.
Hello Andrew, let us add this enhancement to the backlog and try to include it for Q3-Q4 2023
Hello Carlos, following up on this. Has it been implemented yet?