VAConnect is a set of two steel connection design utilities. Run these stand-alone, or use integrated with VisualAnalysis.
Base Plates
Follows AISC Design Guide #1. Easy input, hand-calculation-like reporting.
- Axial and moments
- All limit states checked
- Anchorage design checks
Shear Tabs
Design beam-to-column single-plate shear tab connections per AISC 360.
- Welded to supporting element
- Bolted beam connection
- All limit states checked
VAConnect Specifications
Base Plate Benefits
- AISC Design Guide 1 (DG1)
- Base plate per AISC 360-10
- Concrete per ACI 318-14
- Anchorage per ACI 318-14
- Anchorage breakout graphics
- Specify reinforcing to prevent breakout
- Concrete bearing
- Steel plate bending
- Base plate detailing
- Bolt tension
- Single anchor tension breakout
- Anchor group tension breakout
- Tension pullout
- Single anchor side blowout
- Anchor group side blowout
- Bolt shear
- Anchor group shear breakout
- Single anchor shear pryout
- Anchor group shear pryout
- Anchorage tension and shear interaction
- Anchorage detailing
Shear Tab Benefits
- Steel design per AISC 360-10
- Eccentric bolt group shear
- Eccentric bolt group bearing
- Eccentric fillet weld shear
- Weld base metal shear rupture
- Shear tab plate shear yielding
- Shear tab plate shear rupture
- Shear tab plate block shear
- Beam web block shear (axial loads only)
- Shear tab plate combined tension rupture
- Shear tab shear, bending, and axial interaction
- Shear tab plate local buckling
- Shear tab stabilizer plate limit
- Detailing Checks
* VAConnect download link provides trial version of the software.
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