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Thanks asixth, that makes it a little clearer after reading all that. My concern is designing a cold formed portal frame with a moment base connection.
The column base connection comprises of a large bracket cast into the concrete with each flange of the bracket being bolted to the two column flanges. This connection no doubt will take a significant amount of moment in the structure. Is there a way to convert this moment connection into a stiffness I can input into my calculations/space gass?? I realise that cold formed portals should probably be done by plastic analysis, but I want to know about the connection stiffness also. Can you offer any comments on that?
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RE: Portal Frame Analysis with semi rigid base plate connection (Structural) 21 Aug 13 23:33.