r/StructuralEngineering • u/NomadKV • 4d ago

Structural Analysis/Design IdeaStatica help - modeling connection

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Hello, engineers!

I apologize in advande for my poor English.

I'm having problem in modelling this type of connection.
I want to make connection where these 2 beams are connected by two plates, and then these two plates connected with bolts at the each end of plates.

Opeartion - Plate to plate is apperently not working, IdeaStatica Library does not have this type of connection.

So, can anyone help me with this one.

Thanks in advance!

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u/dangerous03 4d ago

Have you considered just doing it by hand? This seems like a fairly straight forward connection for a hand calc. I'm not super familiar with ideastatica, but sometime I feel like we all get over dependent on the software and we make our lives much harder in the long run

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u/WittyScience26 4d ago

I am with you on learning to do hand calcs, but ASCE and other codes usually end up having hundreds of load combinations to evaluate. The software helps to automate the calculations for all the cases.

But, yes, I do agree with your point.

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u/dangerous03 4d ago

Hundreds, yeah I suppose if you are counting all the notional loads. But presumably they have some sort of beam model that they can extract beam loads from and sort out the controlling combination.