Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering

Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Cambridge, MA, USA
TENSION MEMBERS &
CONNECTIONS
1.051 Structural Engineering Design Prof. Oral Buyukozturk
Lecture Notes
1.051 Structural Engineering Design
Prof. Oral Buyukozturk
Tension Members
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OUTLINE
Introduction
Typical tension member sections
Failure modes
Yielding and Fracture
Block shear rupture
Gross area, net area, and effective net area
LRFD limit states
Yielding on gross section
Fracture on effective net section
Block shear rupture failure
Serviceability