Name: JANE SUAVE VERONEZ
Type: MSc dissertation
Publication date: 07/06/2005
Advisor:

Name	Role
WALNÓRIO GRAÇA FERREIRA	Advisor *

Examining board:

Name	Role
LUIZ FERNANDO LOUREIRO FERNANDES	External Examiner *
LUIZ HERKENHOFF COELHO	Internal Examiner *
PEDRO AUGUSTO CÉZAR OLIVEIRA SÁ	Co advisor *
WALNÓRIO GRAÇA FERREIRA	Advisor *

Summary: VERONEZ,J.S. (2004). Study of the effetive net area of bolted flat plates and
single angles of steel tension members capacities. Vitória, 2004. 199 p.
Dissertação de Mestrado – Universidade Federal do Espírito Santo.
This work presents a study of the net section rupture of bolted flat plates and
single angles of steel tension members capacities. The modes of failure of the
tension members subjected to static loads and connected with bolts are exposed
at first. After that, the mode of failure of rupture of net section is established as the
center of interest.
A brief report above researches about the subject is presented and the sources of
design calculations used by some current specifications are indicated. Afterwards,
design calculations for service ability criterion, used by current specifications for
laminated, welded and cold formed steel members, are presented and the
divergences between those criterions are pointed out. A comparative analysis with
numeric examples with laminated and welded members is accomplished, in order
to exemplify the specification prescriptions.
A numeric simulation of plates with concentric connections and single angles with
eccentric connections are realized by the finite element analysis (FEA), in the
program Ansys 5.5. After the presentation of the results, procedures to calculate
the resistance of the studied models are proposed, and a comparative analysis
between the results obtained on the numeric simulation and on the design
calculations for service ability criterion is realized, showing the differences
between them and indicating the ones that have more approximation with numeric
results.

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