CE 51- STRUCTURAL STEEL DESIGN

(BASEPLATE AND BEARING PLATE)

Prepared by: Arc Siede I. Cabugsa, CE
for CE51 (Structural Design: Steel)
First Semester AY 2019-2020
Date: September 3, 2019
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 Column Baseplate
Column base plates requires consideration of bearing
pressure on the supporting material and bending of the
plate.
• Bending in baseplates are subjected to two‐way
bending.
• Web crippling and web yielding are not factors in
column base plate design

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 Column Baseplate
Required Base Plate Area

𝐶𝑜𝑙𝑢𝑚𝑛 𝑜𝑟 𝐵𝑒𝑎𝑚 𝑅𝑒𝑎𝑐𝑡𝑖𝑜𝑛

𝐴𝑟𝑒𝑎
𝐴𝑙𝑙𝑜𝑤𝑎𝑏𝑙𝑒 𝐵𝑒𝑎𝑟𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑆𝑡𝑟𝑒𝑠𝑠

WSD / ASD
Allowable Bearing Stress of Concrete, Fp (NSCP 2001/ AISC)
On full area of a concrete support:
Fp = 0.35f’c
On less than full area of concrete support:

Fp = 0.35f’c … 𝑤ℎ𝑒𝑟𝑒 2.0

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P = total column load
A1 = B X N = area of plate
A2 = Full cross‐ sectional area of concrete
Fb = Allowable bending stress in base plate
Fp = allowable bearing pressure on support
fp = Actual beaing pressure
f‘c = compressive strength of concrete
tp = thickness plate
Allowable bending stess = 0.75Fy

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For axially loaded base plates, the bearing stress under
the base plate is assumed uniformly distributed and can
be expressed as

fpu = (LRFD)

fpa = (ASD)

This bending pressure causes bending in the baseplate

at the assumed critical sections shown

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 Column Baseplate
M = fp x n x

fb =
when b = 1 mm and d = tp

tp =

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Example 1.0:
A baseplate for a steel column supports an axial load of 1230 kN. The
columnsection is W 310 x 79 with the following properties.
Depth = 306 mm
Width = 254 mm
Area = 10100 mm2
f‘c = 20.7 MPa
Assume a full area of concrete support
1. Determine the allowable bearing pressure on the concrete footing.
2. Determine the dimension of the baseplate.
3. Determine the thickness of the base plate.

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Example 1.0:
Fp = 0.35f’c but less than 0.70f’c
1. Fp = 0.35 f’c = 0.35(20.7MPa) = 7.245 Mpa
2. fp = Fp = ; 7.45MPa =
Ap = 169, 772 mm2 (B X N)
Theoretical Column
0.80bf x 0.95d
0.8 (254mm) = 203.2 mm
0.95 (366mm) = 290.7 mm
B = 203.2 + 2(X) = 370.6 mm; N = 290.7 + 2(X) = 458.1 mm (203.2 + 2X)(290.2 + 2X) = 169, 772mm2
USE 370 X 460 mm baseplate X = 83.7 mm

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 Column Baseplate
Example 1.0:
m = 83.40 mm
n = 84.65 mm
Actual bearing stress from actual loads
, ,
fp = = 7.23 MPa
. .
tp = = 28.79 mm
.

Use 370 x 460 x 29mm baseplate

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 Column Baseplate
Example 2.0:
A w14x82 is used as a column and is being carried by a 40mm thick,
400mm by 550mm, A36 steel base plate resting on a 600 x 600mm
concrete pedestal.
Properties of W14 x 82
bf = 260 mm
d = 370 mm
1. Determine the axial load capacity

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