Allows any:
- bolt quantity or
- row spacing or
- column spacing or
- rotation
No manual interpolation required.
Concise and easy. See still shot. And video.
Clarification: C values are for P load located at an eccentricity of ‘ex’; Cprime values are for pure moment loading
Verification: AISC — one column of bolts.
Verification: AISC — two columns of bolts.
Karl Hoitsma, P.E. (khoitsma)
is this developed by using VBA
No, this was developed using PyXLL. Link: https://www.pyxll.com/
For a presentation of a VBA solution:
See https://engineersviewpoint.blogspot.com/2017/01/eccentrically-loaded-bolt-group-bolt.html
or
See https://www.steeltools.org/bolted.php and search for ‘Redempto Legaspi Jr’