EP2767642A1 - Liaison nodale transmettandt des forces - Google Patents

Liaison nodale transmettandt des forces Download PDF

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EP2767642A1
EP2767642A1 EP13199476.6A EP13199476A EP2767642A1 EP 2767642 A1 EP2767642 A1 EP 2767642A1 EP 13199476 A EP13199476 A EP 13199476A EP 2767642 A1 EP2767642 A1 EP 2767642A1
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    • E—FIXED CONSTRUCTIONS
    • E04—BUILDING
    • E04B—GENERAL BUILDING CONSTRUCTIONS; WALLS, e.g. PARTITIONS; ROOFS; FLOORS; CEILINGS; INSULATION OR OTHER PROTECTION OF BUILDINGS
    • E04B1/00—Constructions in general; Structures which are not restricted either to walls, e.g. partitions, or floors or ceilings or roofs
    • E04B1/18—Structures comprising elongated load-supporting parts, e.g. columns, girders, skeletons
    • E04B1/24—Structures comprising elongated load-supporting parts, e.g. columns, girders, skeletons the supporting parts consisting of metal
    • E04B1/2403—Connection details of the elongated load-supporting parts
    • E—FIXED CONSTRUCTIONS
    • E04—BUILDING
    • E04B—GENERAL BUILDING CONSTRUCTIONS; WALLS, e.g. PARTITIONS; ROOFS; FLOORS; CEILINGS; INSULATION OR OTHER PROTECTION OF BUILDINGS
    • E04B1/00—Constructions in general; Structures which are not restricted either to walls, e.g. partitions, or floors or ceilings or roofs
    • E04B1/18—Structures comprising elongated load-supporting parts, e.g. columns, girders, skeletons
    • E04B1/24—Structures comprising elongated load-supporting parts, e.g. columns, girders, skeletons the supporting parts consisting of metal
    • E04B1/2403—Connection details of the elongated load-supporting parts
    • E04B2001/2415—Brackets, gussets, joining plates
    • E—FIXED CONSTRUCTIONS
    • E04—BUILDING
    • E04B—GENERAL BUILDING CONSTRUCTIONS; WALLS, e.g. PARTITIONS; ROOFS; FLOORS; CEILINGS; INSULATION OR OTHER PROTECTION OF BUILDINGS
    • E04B1/00—Constructions in general; Structures which are not restricted either to walls, e.g. partitions, or floors or ceilings or roofs
    • E04B1/18—Structures comprising elongated load-supporting parts, e.g. columns, girders, skeletons
    • E04B1/24—Structures comprising elongated load-supporting parts, e.g. columns, girders, skeletons the supporting parts consisting of metal
    • E04B1/2403—Connection details of the elongated load-supporting parts
    • E04B2001/2442—Connections with built-in weakness points
    • E—FIXED CONSTRUCTIONS
    • E04—BUILDING
    • E04B—GENERAL BUILDING CONSTRUCTIONS; WALLS, e.g. PARTITIONS; ROOFS; FLOORS; CEILINGS; INSULATION OR OTHER PROTECTION OF BUILDINGS
    • E04B1/00—Constructions in general; Structures which are not restricted either to walls, e.g. partitions, or floors or ceilings or roofs
    • E04B1/18—Structures comprising elongated load-supporting parts, e.g. columns, girders, skeletons
    • E04B1/24—Structures comprising elongated load-supporting parts, e.g. columns, girders, skeletons the supporting parts consisting of metal
    • E04B1/2403—Connection details of the elongated load-supporting parts
    • E04B2001/2454—Connections between open and closed section profiles

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  • This invention pertains to structural weld preparation in the context of a connective interface between the end of an I-beam, and a beam-attaching end component that is used to connect the beam to a column in a building frame structure.
  • run-on and run-off tabs are usually added to extend the trough ends to insure a full weld section over the full width of a flange.
  • back-up bars are added to assist in the achieving of a full-section weld, and to prevent molten weld material from flowing through the joint region at the end of a beam.
  • the present invention addresses these issues in a simple, effective and practical manner.
  • a preferred and best-mode embodiment of, and manner of practicing, the invention involve the creation of elongate, weld-material-receiving troughs in beam-attaching end components to which beam ends are to be welded, rather than in beam-end flanges per se.
  • These troughs are positioned so as to confront directly, and to align with, an I-beam's flanges, and the troughs are prepared with lengths which include opposite end regions that extend laterally beyond the lateral edges of the beam's flanges. These end regions function as run-on and run-off regions for molten weld material, and do so in a manner which obviates the need for any added run-out, etc. tabs.
  • the mentioned trough end regions are formed in such a fashion that they form walled, containment pockets for molten weld material.
  • a portion of a plural-story building frame including upright hollow, square cross section columns, one of which is shown fragmentarily at 12, horizontal interconnecting 1-beams, four of which are shown fragmentarily at 13, 14, 15, 16, and sets of inner and outer, moment and gravity load-transmitting, collar structures, such as those illustrated at 18, that function to form nodal connections between columns and beams.
  • the long axis of column 12 is shown at 12 a .
  • the respective long axes of beams 13, 14, 15, 16 are shown at 13 a , 14 a , 15 a , 16 a .
  • an inner collar such as inner collar 18 a is joined as by welding, in a circumsurrounding fashion, to the four outside faces of column 12, and seated thereon, through male-female, gravity-lock mating substructures (not specifically detailed herein) is an outer collar, such as outer collar 18 b , which is comer-clamped to and around the associated inner collar.
  • inner collar 18 a is joined as by welding, in a circumsurrounding fashion, to the four outside faces of column 12, and seated thereon, through male-female, gravity-lock mating substructures (not specifically detailed herein) is an outer collar, such as outer collar 18 b , which is comer-clamped to and around the associated inner collar.
  • outer collar 18 b or if a collar structure is not here employed, some other nodal connecting form using a generally planar beam-end end component, is made up of four generally planar components , such as component 18 c , which form, and are referred to herein as, beam-attaching end components that are welded to I-beam ends via weld preparations which are made in accordance with the invention.
  • These weld preparations which are filled with weld material (as illustrated in Figs. 2 and 3 ), are shown generally (and only schematically) as darkened features 19 in Figs. 2 and 3 .
  • each such component presents a generally planar beam-attaching facial side (or expanse), such as side 18 d, to an I-beam end, and that (b) this side is characterized with a beam-facing expanse which spans what is referred to herein as the end footprint of an I-beam which is to be welded to the component. (See beam footprint designated generally F in Fig. 3 ).
  • weld preparations (19) proposed by the present invention are now described with specific reference only to beam 13, and to the single end component 18 c which is so labeled in the drawing figures.
  • Very specifically one preferred and best-mode (embodiment) form of a weld preparation made in accordance with the invention is shown in these figures.
  • beam 13 and end component 18 c are shown in different orientations in Fig. 4 than they are in Figs. 1 and 2 .
  • Fig. 4-6 Focusing attention especially on Fig. 4-6 , inclusive, here two weld preparations (with welds) are shown at 19 between I-beam 13 and end component 18 c with its beam-attaching facial side, or expanse, 18 d .
  • the entire end surfaces, or expanses, of beam 13 are planar, and lie in a common plane 22 (see Figs. 5 and 6 ) which is substantially normal to the beam's long axis 13 a . No flange material is removed.
  • troughs 24, 26 Formed appropriately in end component 18 c to which the shown end of beam 13 is welded are upper and lower weld-material-receiving troughs 24, 26. These troughs, as can be seen, are disposed confrontingly adjacent the ends of the flanges in beam 13.
  • troughs 24, 26 each has a length L 2 (see particularly Fig.4 ), which is greater than the defined, common lateral dimensions L 3 (see also Fig. 4 ) of the beam flanges.
  • L 2 see particularly Fig.4
  • L 3 see also Fig. 4
  • regions function, in accordance with the invention, as run-on and run-out regions, or zones, or pockets, for receiving, along with the remainders of troughs 24, 26, molten weld material, such as that shown (now hardened) at 28.
  • end zones which, one will note, do not require the presence of any added run-on and run-off tabs, enable full-strength, full-flange-width welds to be created along the entire lateral dimensions of the beam's flanges.
  • regions 24 a , 24 b assures that any potential variables in weld integrity associated with starting or ending a weld procedure will exist beyond and outside of the critical zone immediately along the width of a flange. Additionally, these provided run-on and run-off trough regions do not require any post-welding treatment to eliminate potential stress-riser zones.
  • a more detailed expression of a selectable additional step involves creating the mentioned troughs to have lengths which are greater than the widths of the confronting beam's flanges, thus to provide run-on and run-off regions for molten weld material.
  • a beam end and an end component are oriented so as to take advantage of gravity in weld formation.
  • A is weld thus preferably first formed in a weld preparation along the length of one beam flange, and then the united beam and end component are rotated 180° about the beam's long axis to accommodate the making of a weld in the other weld preparation along the length of the other flange.
  • a beam-attaching end component again identified with the reference designation 18 c , is prepared with a somewhat differently configured pair of upper and lower weld preparations with troughs, such as trough 30.
  • troughs such as trough 30.
  • the thus differentiated, alternative shape of each trough 30 is clearly illustrated in these two figures. Whereas previously described troughs 24, 26, at the locations of the end regions, such as end regions 24 a , 24 b , are effectively "open ended", this is not so for comparable regions 30 a , 30 b in trough 30.
  • Regions 30 a , 30 b are defined, at least in part, as walled cavities, or pockets, by two spaced walls (see walls 30 c , 30 d ) which exists in end component 18 c . These walls are spaced along a line, such as line 32, which is substantially normal to the nominal plane 18 e (see Fig. 8 ) of end component 18 c .
  • a short length L 1 (see Fig. 8 ) of the beam's central web 13 b is removed to provide a web recess 13 c .
  • This recess furnishes clearance for the beam's flanges to extend conveniently into the weld preparation troughs, and over shelves, such as shelf 30 e (see Fig. 8 ) in trough 30.
  • the end expanse of web 13 b is not coplanar with the end expanses of the two flanges.
  • Another form of the invention usesable with both modifications thereof as so far described, involves the creation of an elongate vertical channel in the face of a beam end component, extending between and opening at opposite ends to the two prepared weld-preparation troughs (upper and lower), and possessing a lateral width which will accommodate the free insertion of a beam's central web (like web 13 b ).
  • the entire end of a beam can lie in a common plane, and the flanges will extend over regions in the two troughs which are like just mentioned shelf 30 e .
  • weld preparation troughs are preformed, at each end, with spaced walls that define a walled cavity which accommodates start-up and run-out of molten weld material.

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