Beams

Beams
• BEAM BEARING PLATES AND COLUMN BASE PLATES
 Column Base Plates:
 The design of column base plates requires consideration of
 Bearing pressure on the supporting material and bending of the
plate.
 Column base plates are subjected to two-way bending.
 Web crippling and web yielding are not factors in column base
plates design.
Column base plates can be categorized as
 Small plates are those whose dimensions are approximately the
same as the column dimensions..
 Large plates are those whose dimensions are extend beyond the
column outline.
 Beams
• BEAM BEARING PLATES AND COLUMN BASE PLATES
 Column Base Plates:
 Small plates behave differently when lightly loaded than when
they are more heavily loaded.
 Large plates:
 The thickness of large plates is determined from consideration of
bending of the portions of the plate that extend beyond the
column outline.
 Bending is assumed to take place about axes at middepth of the
plate near the edges of the column flanges.
 Two of the axes are parallel to the web and 0.80bf apart, and two
axes are parallel to the flanges and 0.95d apart.
 The two 1-inch cantilever strips are labeled m and n in Figure.
 Beams
• BEAM BEARING PLATES AND COLUMN BASE PLATES
 Column Base Plates
To determine the required plate thickness, we use Equation
5.12 with the following changes: Instead of n, use the larger of
m and n from Figure and call it l. Replace lb with N and obtain.

where l is the larger of m and n.

This approach is referred to as
the cantilever method.
 Beams
• BEAM BEARING PLATES AND COLUMN BASE PLATES
 Column Base Plates
Design of lightly loaded small base plates
The portion of the column load that falls within the confines
of the column cross section—that is, over an area bfd.
Assumed to be uniformly distributed over the H-shaped area
shown in Figure.
The bearing pressure is concentrated near the column outline.
The plate thickness is determined from a
flexural analysis of a cantilever strip of unit
width and of length c.
 Beams
• BEAM BEARING PLATES AND COLUMN BASE PLATES
 Column Base Plates
For more heavily loaded small base plates
 We do an analysis based on two-way bending of the portion of
the plate between the web and the flanges.
 As shown in Figure, this plate segment is assumed to be fixed at
the web, simply supported at the flanges, and free at the other
edge.
 Beams
• BEAM BEARING PLATES AND COLUMN BASE PLATES
 Column Base Plates
 The required thickness is

Summary of the resulting unified procedure follows.

E N D