FREE STEEL CONNECTION DESIGN CALCULATOR

Calculadora gratuita de projeto de conexão de aço

This free steel connection design calculator models and checks a steel connection in your browser, para AISC 360-16 in ASD or LRFD and to AS 4100:2020. Escolha uma conexão, set your members, fixtures and loads, e resolver.

It is the same software as the paid module and carries the same connection library, so every joint type is available: o cisalhamento, shear plus axial, momento, emendas de colunas e vigas, e as conexões de reforço. There is nothing to install.

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About the Free Steel Connection Design Calculator

The calculator runs the full SkyCiv Connection Design engine. You choose a configuration from the template library, define the members and the connecting elements, set the bolts or welds, and enter the design actions.

It reports a utilization ratio against each limit state rather than a single pass or fail, so you can see which check is close to governing and what to change if it is not. Engenheiros de projeto, empreiteiros e fabricantes usam-no, e o mesmo acontece com os alunos que trabalham em cursos.

American and Australian Standards for Connection Design

A calculadora projeta para AISC 360-16 em ASD ou LRFD, and to AS 4100:2020. O trabalho AISC pode ser feito em unidades imperiais ou métricas, e a norma AS 4100 é executado em métrica.

Pick the design method before you enter loads. LRFD takes factored loads against design strength and ASD takes service loads against allowable strength, and the calculator cannot tell which you typed.

Connection Types You Can Design

The library holds over 80 tipos de conexão pré-configurados. Most are available framing to a column flange, a column web or another beam’s web, which is where the count comes from. They are grouped by the members being joined.

I-Shape to I-Shape Connections (AISC)

The largest group, covering beam to column and beam to beam framing:

HSS to I-Shape Connections (AISC)

For a beam framing into a hollow structural section column:

  • Cisalhamento: single angle, double angle, single plate, single WT and seat angle.
  • Cisalhamento mais axial: single plate.
  • Momento: placa de flange.

Channel to Channel Connections (AISC)

Channel sections are covered for shear, using a directly welded web or a single plate.

Bracing Connections (AISC)

The bracing group covers the gusseted joints in a braced frame:

  • Vertical brace: single plate, double angle, end plate or directly welded to the column, each with a lower brace only, an upper brace only, ou ambos.
  • Chevron brace: directly welded gusset plate.
  • Knee brace: directly welded gusset plate.
  • Truss brace: the knee and chevron gusset configurations, applied to a truss node.
  • Horizontal brace: single plate or single angle to the support, with or without a column at the joint.

Bracing is available under AISC only.

AS 4100 Conexões

AS 4100:2020 covers shear connections between I-sections: the web side plate, placa final flexível, ângulo único e ângulo duplo.

Seções, Grades and Fixtures

Flange Largo, HSS, Peso, Perfis L e 2L estão disponíveis sob AISC, e Vigas Universais e Pilares Universais sob AS 4100. Classes de aço padrão para membros, placas e fixadores são pré-carregados, and you can enter your own Fy and Fu where a grade is not listed.

Every interface can be bolted ou soldado. For the fastener side on its own, há um bolt calculator e uma weld calculator.

How to Use the Free Steel Connection Design Calculator

Work through the tabs in this order:

  1. Code and category: pick AISC 360-16 ou AS 4100:2020, the units, and the members being joined.
  2. Configuração: choose the connection type from the template cards.
  3. Conjunto: set the supported and supporting members, their sections and grades.
  4. Para obter mais informações sobre como esta pressão lateral de terra é incluída no Muro de Contenção: the plate or angle geometry.
  5. Luminárias: grau de parafuso, diâmetro, tipo de furo e layout, or weld size and electrode strength.
  6. Cargas: the design actions, matched to the method you picked.

Then run the design checks. Anything missing from an earlier tab is flagged rather than silently defaulted, and the detailing limitation table flags a connection that satisfies every strength calculation but still cannot be fabricated or erected.

What the Free Version Limits

The free calculator is the same software and carries the same connection library. What it limits is how much you can change and how much of the results you see.

  • Solves: a free user gets 20 design check runs per week.
  • Resultados: the demand is shown for every check, but the capacity and the ratio are locked on the back half of the design checks and the detailing limits. An odd count rounds the shown half down, so a section holding a single check is locked outright.
  • Relatório: the detailed calculation report is not produced.
  • Files: connection files cannot be saved or loaded.
  • Entradas: bolt hole type, forma de seção, membro, materiais para parafusos e soldas, diâmetro do parafuso, os elementos de conexão e os lados da solda permanecem em seus padrões e são marcados como PRO.

A Conta gratis is what lets you save and reload your work.

Why Choose SkyCiv Connection Design

O completo Projeto de conexões SkyCiv module unlocks all of the above. Its report writes out every calculation step with the equation, tabela de projeto e cláusula de onde veio no AISC 360-16 ou AS 4100:2020, so the working can be read line by line instead of reverse-engineered from a number.

It also runs the detailing and clash checks before the solve, produces CloudCAD detail drawings alongside the calculation report, and exports 3D connection geometry directly to IFC. It runs entirely in the cloud, sem downloads, updates or IT setup.

A steel connection design software page sets out the full feature list and pricing options.

Common questions about designing steel connections and using this calculator.

Suas perguntas respondidas

It checks the connecting elements and their fasteners against the actions you enter. That covers bolt shear, tensão do parafuso, combined tension and shear interaction, weld throat stress, plate yielding, plate rupture, bloquear ruptura por cisalhamento, flexão de placa, and the local limit states of the supporting member.

Each one is reported as a utilization ratio with the code reference behind it.

Sobre 80 pre-configured types. Cisalhamento, shear plus axial and moment connections between I-shapes, HSS to I-shape connections, channel to channel shear connections, emendas de colunas e vigas, and the vertical, divisa, joelho, truss and horizontal bracing connections.

Em AS 4100 as conexões de cisalhamento são a placa lateral da alma, placa final flexível, ângulo único e ângulo duplo.

AISC 360-16 in both ASD and LRFD, e a norma AS 4100:2020. O trabalho AISC pode ser feito em unidades imperiais ou métricas; AS 4100 é executado em métrica.

Flange Largo, HSS, Peso, L and 2L profiles under AISC, e Vigas Universais e Pilares Universais sob AS 4100. Standard grades for members, placas e fixadores são pré-carregados, and you can enter your own Fy and Fu where a grade is not listed.

Ambos. Each interface is set independently, so the common arrangement of a shop weld to the support and a field bolt to the supported member is modelled directly. Several configurations, such as the directly welded web, remove the connecting element altogether.

Sim. A connection that delivers concentrated forces into a column raises local limit states in that column, and web local yielding, paralisação da web, web shear and local flange bending are checked alongside the connecting elements.

This is what usually decides whether transverse stiffeners are needed, and it is the check most often missed when a connection is sized by hand.

It is the demand divided by the available strength for that limit state, so anything at or below 1.0 passes. The governing check is the highest ratio, and that is the one to change if the connection needs more capacity.

A ratio well under 1.0 across every check usually means the connection is heavier than it needs to be.

A free user gets 20 design check runs per week. The demand is shown for every check, but the capacity and ratio are locked on the back half of the design checks and detailing limits, the detailed calculation report is not produced, and connection files cannot be saved or loaded.

Tipo de furo de parafuso, forma de seção, membro, materiais para parafusos e soldas, diâmetro do parafuso, os elementos de conexão e os lados da solda permanecem em seus padrões e são marcados como PRO. The connection library itself is not limited.

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