Connection Guide : Bent Plates

Disclaimer: This guide is not comprehensive. It shows only a few of the many bent plate connections that connection design can create.

Bent Plates
Offset and opposite Bolted to supporting With welded extended tee
Welded to supported Welded to supporting Framing to nothing
Bolted to supported On one side of beam web

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Bent Plates Offset and Opposite
Connection Design Locks = " Bent Plate ," " Beam Web Doubler "
Input connection type: ' Bent plate ' or ' Auto standard ' or ' User defined '.
Comments: Connection design uses the " Wide gage " or " Narrow gage " center-to-center distance in Standard Fabricator Connections for one side of each connection. For the other side, connection design increases the gage.

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Bent Plates Welded to Supported
Connection Design Locks = " Bent Plate ," " Beam Web Doubler "
Input connection type: ' Bent plate ' or ' Auto standard ' or ' User defined '.
Settings: ' Narrow ' gage or ' Wide ' gage, ' Welded ' to ' Both ' sides of the ' Supported ' beam.
Comments: This example shows skewed beam-to-beam framing from beneath the top flanges of the beams. Web doublers were automatically designed on the supported beam to prevent web buckling.

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Bent Plates Bolted to Supported
Connection Design Locks = " Bent Plate "
Input connection type: ' Bent plate ' or ' Auto standard ' or ' User defined '.
Settings: ' Narrow ' gage or ' Wide ' gage, ' Bolted ' to ' Both ' sides of the ' Supported ' beam.
Comments: This example shows a channel beam framing skewed to the web of another channel beam of the same size. Connection design automatically copes the supported beam so that it fits.

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Bent Plates Bolted to Supporting
Connection Design Locks = " Bent Plate "
Input connection type: ' Bent plate ' or ' Auto standard ' or ' User defined '.
Settings: ' Narrow ' gage or ' Wide ' gage on ' Both ' sides of the beam, shop ' Bolted ' to the ' Supporting ' member.

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Bent Plates Welded to Supporting
Connection Design Locks = " Bent Plate "
Input connection type: ' Bent plate ' or ' Auto standard ' or ' User defined '.
 
Settings: ' Narrow ' gage or ' Wide ' gage on ' Both ' sides of the beam, shop ' Welded ' to the ' Supporting ' member.

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Bent Plate on One Side of Beam Web
Connection Design Locks = " Bent Plate "
Input connection type: ' Bent plate ' or ' Auto standard ' or ' User defined '.
Settings: ' Narrow ' gage or ' Wide ' gage on ' Near ' or ' Far ' side of the beam.

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Bent Plates to a Welded Extended Tee
Connection Design Locks = " Bent Plate ," " Welded Tee "
Input connection type: ' Bent plate ' or ' Auto standard ' or ' User defined '.
Settings: " Welded extended tee " (checked) and " Full depth extended tee " (not checked).
 
Design restrictions: Connection design can design the built-up tee to be the length of the bent plate if the top & bottom flanges of the supported beam are entirely below or above (as shown) the half-depth of the supporting beam.

A full-depth extended welded tee. In this example, the welded tee is the full depth of the supporting beam because " Full depth extended tee " is checked. Welded tees are always full depth when the nominal depth of the supported beam is more than half the nominal depth of the supporting beam.

Same two beams as above, but without the welded tee. When the option for " Welded extended tee " is not checked, connection design copes the supported beam to fit under the flange of the supporting beam and bolts the bent plate directly to the supporting beam's web.

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Bent Plates on a Beam Framing to Nothing
Connection Design Locks = " Bent Plate " " Beam Web Doubler "
Comments: Unlike most connection types, bent plates can be applied on members that do not frame to anything. The same is true of end plates and clip angles and user base/cap plates . A search is available to help you locate members with indeterminate ends .

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