Resistance of plate girders under combined bending and shear
EMESEG'10 Proceedings of the 3rd WSEAS international conference on Engineering mechanics, structures, engineering geology
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Pin connections are often used in the section of steel and timber structures. They are often designed as connections with mutual free slewing of connected elements, if the global behaviour of the structural detail can be negatively affected by the real rigidity of this connection. Joint with pin connections can have various geometric configurations; they can be exposed to the static or dynamic actions. Simple design rules defined in the actual standard document for design of steel structures EN 1993 [1] may be used in the process of design (or check calculation) of pin connections. The paper summarises the pieces of knowledge and comparisons of the pin connection's actions based on the exact theoretical solution of the curving member, experimental static tests of connections and design rules according to EN 1993-1-8 (Design of steel structures, Part 1-8: Design of joints) [2].