System Connections ( designed connections)

• Auto standard connections (beams, columns, joists)
• User Defined Connection (connection settings stored in a file)
• Clip Angle Connection (may be a moment connections)
• Bent Plate Connection
• End Plate Connection (may be a moment connection)
• Shear Connection (may be a moment connection)
• Seated Beam Connection
• Splice Plate Connection (beam to beam - may be a moment connection)
• Splice Plate Connection (column to column)
• Auto Base/Cap Plate
• Joist Connections (cannot be auto standard)
• VBrc Plate (cannot be auto standard)
• HBrc Plate (cannot be auto standard)
• Moment Connection (cannot be auto standard)
• Welded connection (cannot be auto standard)
• Fully welded moment

System connections are designed per the selected " Connection design method ."

Method	Setup Window	Design Specifications
' ASD14 '	ASD 14th Omega Factors	AISC Steel Construction Manual, Fourteenth Edition
' ASD13 '	Omega Factors	AISC Steel Construction Manual, Thirteenth Edition
' ASD 9 '	- - -	AISC Manual of Steel Construction, Allowable Stress Design, 9th Edition
' LRFD 14 '	LRFD 14th Phi Factors	AISC Steel Construction Manual, Fourteenth Edition
' LRFD 13 '	LRFD 13th Phi Factors	AISC Steel Construction Manual, Thirteenth Edition
' LRFD 3 '	LRFD 3rd Phi Factors	Manual of Steel Construction, Load and Resistance Factor Design, 3rd Edition
' CSA 10 '	CSA10 Phi Factors	CISC Handbook of Steel Construction, Tenth Edition
' CSA 9 '	CSA Phi Factors	CISC Handbook of Steel Construction, Ninth Edition
' CSA 8 '	CSA Phi Factors	CISC Handbook of Steel Construction, Eighth Edition

System connections are designed based on the applied loads .

Beam  Loads -------------------------------------------------------------------- --
Shear load	Tension load
Story shear	Compression load
Moment load

Column Loads ------------------------------------------------------------------ --
Load	Splice uplift
Moment	Horizontal shear

Horizontal Brace Loads ----------------------------------------------------- --
Tension load	Compression load

Vertical Brace Loads   --------------------------------------------------------- --
Tension load
Compression load

Joist Loads ------------------------------------------------------------------------- --
Load

System connections can be graphical :

	graphical
	system

System connections can be forced :

	forced
	system

System connections can be reviewed on the Connection Component window :

With the ' Connection Components ' filter or ' Default ' or ' All ' filter selected, double-click a system connection material to open the Connection Component window for that connection.

A failed connection is a system connection that failed the limit-state strength capacity testing that takes place during connection design and, as a result, produced a connection failure message such as the following :

Beam web shear capacity failed

• beam
• column
• horizontal brace
• vertical brace
• joist

Design calculations are available for system connections .

• Design Calculations Report
• Cover Sheet
• Expanded Calculations

Other connection types :

• Plain End
• User Base/Cap Plate (column, user designed, not system-designed)
• Embeds (custom members, not system-designed connections)
• Bearing (joist to a beam's top flange)
• Bearing (beams to concrate, incorporate embed custom members)
• Stabilizer plates and angles (joist bottom chord)
• Joist seat to embed (joist to concrete)
• Stabilizer to embed (joist to concrete)

Other ways to get connections ( in a full-featured SDS2 program )

• Custom members
• Custom components
• Run Parametric

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