Hi, I'm designing a Moment End Plate Beam Splice Connection. In this, web weld strength to reach yield stress is checked with reference from Eqns J2-4 & J4-1 from AISC-2010. I would like to understand why is the tensile yielding of web is checked…

I am using RAM Connection for a base plate. The base plate has both uplift and shear concurrently. I was looking to see how the interaction of tension and shear was done on the weld and cannot figure out what RAM is doing to calculate the demand. …