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Improved Analysis Of Bolted Shear Connection Under Eccentric Loads, Dung-Myau Lue, Cheng-Yen Liao, Chien-Chien Chang, Wei-Ting Hsu

Journal of Marine Science and Technology

Almost all bolted connections are eccentrically loaded. The American Institute of Steel Construction (AISC) permits the use of elastic and instantaneous center of rotation (IC) methods to analyze eccentric bolted connections. The elastic method normally yields relatively conservative designs and the IC method, which provides more realistic analyses, is rather complex and tedious. The current AISC manual provides tables for determining coefficient C, which is used to obtain the design strength of bolt group patterns. However, the tables provide values for only six angles of inclination (θ = 0°, 15°, 30°, 45°, 60°, and 75°). For other angles, a direct …