Faculty of Applied Engineering and Urban Planning

Civil Engineering Department

Dr. Eng. Mustafa Maher Al-tayeb

2nd Semester 2013/2014

CVL 4325
Staggered fasteners :
Reduced diameter

Where d: Hole diameter

S : Stagger.
g: Gage transverse spacing
The net width in the failure line

Where
Wn the net width
W g the gross width

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Effective Net Area

Shear lag occurs when the tension forces is not transferred

simultaneously to all elements of the cross-section. This will occur
when some elements of the cross-section are not connected. For
example see the figure below. Where only one leg of an angle is
bolted to the plate.

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Effective Net Area

The AISC Steel Manual introduces the concept of effective net area to
account for shear lag effects.
For bolted connections: Ae = UAn
For welded connections: Ae = UAg
The rules for determining U fall into the following table

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