Joint design resistance tutorial

Designers usually solve a task to design connection / joint to bear the known design load. But it is also useful to know how far is the joint
design from the limit state, or how big is the reserve in the design and how much safe it is. This can be done simply by the new type of ana-
lysis – Design joint resistance.

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 As a first step the design of connection / joint has to be done. Let's download the source file JointDesignResistance.ideaCon from the
Resource center. After opening the file in IDEA StatiCa Connections we can see the designed connection.

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 Next step in the Project items is to Copy the first item in a row and change the Analysis type to DR – Joint design resistance.

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 Now we can proceed to Check and choose Calculation command on the top ribbon.

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 After calculation the results are displayed. In the tab Joint design resistance we can see a chart with the ratio of maximal load to design
load. Also a simple diagram is provided in Data window.

IDEA StatiCa provides structural design and code check of members and details. Novel methods in simple software for
daily work of engineers. Get more resources at http://www.ideastatica.com
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