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 | |
Also see :
- Bent plate (index)
- Bent plate connections (help page)
- Connection design locks (for bent plates)
- Status Display ( Connection type > Bent plate )
- Ways of generating connections in Modeling (topics)
| Bent Plates Offset and Opposite | |
| Connection Design Locks = " Bent Plate ," " Beam Web Doubler " | |
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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. | |
| Bent Plates Welded to Supported | |
| Connection Design Locks = " Bent Plate ," " Beam Web Doubler " | |
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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. | |
| Bent Plates Bolted to Supported | |
| Connection Design Locks = " Bent Plate " | |
| Input connection type: ' Bent plate ' or ' Auto standard ' or ' User defined '. |
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| 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. | |
| Bent Plates Bolted to Supporting | |
| Connection Design Locks = " Bent Plate " | |
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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. | |
| Bent Plates Welded to Supporting | |
| Connection Design Locks = " Bent Plate " | |
| Input connection type: ' Bent plate ' or ' Auto standard ' or ' User defined '.
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| Settings: ' Narrow ' gage or ' Wide ' gage on ' Both ' sides of the beam, shop ' Welded ' to the ' Supporting ' member. | |
| Bent Plate on One Side of Beam Web | |
| Connection Design Locks = " Bent Plate " | |
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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. | |
| 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 '. |
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| Settings: " Welded extended tee " (checked) and " Full depth extended tee " (not checked).
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| 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. |
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| 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 " | |
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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 . |