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A re-examination of the current design rule for staggered bolted connections

  • Xue-Mei Lin (Department of Building and Real Estate, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University) ;
  • Michael C.H. Yam (Department of Building and Real Estate, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University) ;
  • Ke Ke (School of Civil Engineering, Chongqing University) ;
  • Binhui,Jiang (School of Civil Engineering, Central South University) ;
  • Qun He (Department of Building and Real Estate, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University)
  • Received : 2022.03.14
  • Accepted : 2023.01.12
  • Published : 2023.02.10
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Abstract

This paper summarised and re-examined the theoretical basis of the commonly used design rule developed by Cochrane in the 1920s to consider staggered bolt holes in tension members, i.e., the s2/4g rule. The rule was derived assuming that the term two times the bolt hole diameter (2d0) in Cochrane's original equation could be neglected, and assuming a value of 0.5 for the fractional deduction of a staggered hole in assessing the net section area. Although the s2/4g rule generally provides good predictions of the staggered net section area, the above-mentioned assumptions used in developing the rule are doubtful, in particular for a connection with a small gauge-to-bolt-hole diameter (g/d0) ratio. It was found that the omission of 2d0 in Cochrane's original equation appreciably overestimates the net section area of a staggered bolted connection with a small g/d0 ratio. However, the assumed value of 0.5 for the fractional deduction of a staggered hole underestimates the staggered net section area for small g/d0 ratios. To improve the applicability of the above two assumptions, a modified design equation, which covers a full range of g/d0 ratio, was proposed to accurately predict the staggered net section area and was validated by the existing test data from the literature and numerical data derived from this study. Finally, a reliability analysis of the test and numerical data was conducted, and the results showed that the reliability of the modified design equation for evaluating the net section resistance of staggered bolted connections can be achieved with the partial factor of 1.25.

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Acknowledgement

The work described in this paper was supported by the Chinese National Engineering Research Centre (CNERC) for Steel Construction (Hong Kong Branch) at The Hong Kong Polytechnic University (Project No. 1-BBYQ) and was also partially supported by the Guangdong Basic and Applied Basic Research Funding-Regional Joint Fund for Youth Project under Grant 2022A1515110057.

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