" Stiffener Plate " connection design locks

Beam stiffeners above or below a column with a base/cap plate to a beam are designed per " Stiffener Plate " locks. The locks control the stiffeners on both sides (NS & FS) of the beam web and are stored with the column on whose end the column plate is applied. Instead of two pairs of stiffeners (shown), you may get a single NS and FS stiffener that is centered over or under the column plate.

(column, user or auto base/cap plate connection, to a beam) (" Input conn type " = ' User base/cap plate ' or ' Auto base/cap ' or ' Auto standard ' or ' User defined ') " Use transverse beam stiffener " (auto base/cap plate) or " Use transverse beam stiffener " (user base/cap plate)

" Stiffener Plate " (the column must frame to a beam)

" Stifener Plate " locks become available for a column with a base/cap plate to a beam when " Use transverse beam stiffene r" is set to ' Yes '. If the stiffeners are not required, the locks have null values (e.g., distances of ' 0 ') and no physical stiffeners will exist in the model. If the user of a full-featured SDS2 program then sets at least one of the null-value locks to a non-null value, beam stiffeners are designed around the user-entered values even if the stiffeners are not required. Related locks : Column Plate (user base/cap - beam) Column Plate (auto base/cap - beam)

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Connection design locks :

Locks not on the drawing are marked ( not depicted ).

  Stiffener Plate

NS & FS plates, top & bottom

Plate length ( length ):

Plate width ( width ):

Plate thickness ( thickness ):

Corner clip/cope length ( cut length ):

Corner clip/cope length at flange ( cut length at flg ):

Plate to column web weld ( web weld ):

Plate to column flange weld ( flg weld ):

Top location ( top ):

Center-to-center distance ( cntr to cntr ):

Pairs ( not depicted ): 0, 1 or 2.

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