Aluminum design manual canada

Shop with confidence. Thanks in advance!! Randolph Kissell, P. The Mitsubishi Sirius or 4. Essential for all professionals who work with aluminum in structural applications, this Design of Aluminum Structure. Design method in General. Add to Cart. More About This Product Description. It supersedes the previous editions published in , , , and This Standard is for building applications but it is written in a form that may be used for all types of aluminum load-bearing components or assemblies.

Expressions for the strength of structural components are based on the concept of limit states design. Requirements to satisfy the ultimate limit state form the core of the Standard. As a document referenced by the National Building Code of Canada, the load factors and resistance factors specified by that Code are given. However, because the design expressions predict the nominal resistance of components and connections, this Standard is useful in any field of engineering in which known applied loads are to be supported.

Serviceability limit states depend on the desired behaviour under service loads for each particular application and are not specified in this Standard. CSA S Aluminum Industry in Action.

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Press Release. January 5, Screw Chases Perhaps the most compelling reason to use aluminum in structural applications is that it can be cost-effectively extruded, producing complex cross-sections without labor-intensive fabrication. While screw chases provide economical connections for aluminum members, the pull-out strength of fasteners in the chase has not been addressed in structural design standards.

Flexural Strength Several changes are made to the flexural strength provisions in Chapter F. Bending Coefficient The equation for the bending coefficient, Cb, which accounts for the variation in the moment over the unbraced length of a beam in determining the lateral-torsional buckling strength, is changed to:. Flexure and Axial Compression The Specification includes a direct strength method for determining the capacity of members in flexure or axial compression.

The opportunity to employ such a method in design is especially important for aluminum because extruded aluminum shapes can be very intricate, which complicates the determination of their buckling strengths.

This elastic buckling stress was used to determine the strength of the elements of the section in uniform compression and the strength of the elements of the section in flexural compression.

The strengths of the two groups of elements were then combined using a weighted average based on their section moduli. This approach was rather cumbersome because it required assigning each element of the section to either the elements in uniform compression or the elements in flexural compression, and computing the section modulus of each group. The Specification simplifies this by providing equations to use the elastic buckling stress of the shape to determine the local flexural buckling stress of the shape directly.

Single Angles The flexural strength of single angles is revised, consistent with changes for single angles in the AISC Specification. Block Shear Strength The block shear strength provision in previous Specification editions was similar to an earlier AISC approach in which the strength was the lesser of yielding on the gross shear area with rupture on the net tensile area and yielding on the gross tensile area with rupture on the net shear area.

In the Specification, the block shear strength is now taken as the shear rupture strength on the average of the net and gross shear areas plus the tensile rupture strength on the net tensile area.

The revised strength is more accurate and less cumbersome to compute. Flanges and Webs with Concentrated Forces Web crippling was the only case of concentrated forces on flanges or webs addressed in previous editions of the Specification for Aluminum Structures.

In the Specification, the web crippling strength for extruded shapes Figure 3 is revised and made less conservative, and flange local bending and web local yielding are added. The strengths for these three cases are similar to those in the AISC steel Specification, as the rationale for these strengths can be equally applied to both aluminum and steel.