Masters Theses

Keywords and Phrases

Nominal shear strength

Abstract

"Currently, there are five equations for the nominal shear strength of a screw connection given in the American Iron and Steel Institute’s Specification for the Design of Cold-Formed Steel Structural Members (2001). In an effort to increase the accuracy of the nominal shear equations, studies at the Department of Civil Engineering at the University of Sydney-Australia led to the development of a varied form of strength equations (Rogers and Hancock, 1997).

This research analyzes six different sets of data using the AISI equations and the equations developed by the University of Sydney to determine if these new equations will in fact increase the accuracy of the computed nominal shear strength as compared to the tested shear strength.

As a result of the data analysis, the current AISI equation E4.3.1-1 for t2/t1 < 1.0 is conservative.

For t2/t1 > 1.00, normal ductility and within seven screw connections the Rogers and Hancock equation is more accurate prediction of the connection strength.

For more than seven screws in a connection, use the Rogers and Hancock equation with a reduction factor R of 0.85 provided satisfactory estimates of the connection strength"--Abstract, page iii.

Advisor(s)

LaBoube, Roger A.

Committee Member(s)

Birman, V. (Victor)
Jawad, Maan

Department(s)

Civil, Architectural and Environmental Engineering

Degree Name

M.S. in Civil Engineering

Comments

Accompanying CD-ROM, available at Missouri S&T Library, contains the Visual Basic Code of all fourteen original warrant-pricing models, the statistical test printouts and plots from Tables A, Tables B and Tables C of this thesis.System requirements: Windows XP, Microsoft Excel.

Publisher

University of Missouri--Rolla

Publication Date

Fall 2004

Pagination

ix, 34 pages

Note about bibliography

Includes bibliographical references (page 33).

Rights

© 2004 Michael Rotimi Babalola, All rights reserved.

Document Type

Thesis - Restricted Access

File Type

text

Language

English

Subject Headings

Screws
Strength of materials
Shear (Mechanics)

Thesis Number

T 8783

Print OCLC #

67710307

Link to Catalog Record

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http://merlin.lib.umsystem.edu/record=b5525142~S5

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