{"id":37741,"date":"2023-04-05T14:36:26","date_gmt":"2023-04-05T14:36:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsteelconstruction.com\/wp\/?p=37741"},"modified":"2023-04-05T14:37:33","modified_gmt":"2023-04-05T14:37:33","slug":"rafter-stiffeners-needed-or-not","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsteelconstruction.com\/wp\/rafter-stiffeners-needed-or-not\/","title":{"rendered":"Rafter stiffeners \u2013 needed or not?"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-full\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.newsteelconstruction.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/Tech2304.gif\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"600\" height=\"337\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsteelconstruction.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/Tech2304.gif\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-37742\"\/><\/a><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<div style=\"height:30px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-cyan-bluish-gray-background-color has-background\">Zealous application of the rules in EN 1993-1-8 has resulted in stiffeners being provided in rafters at the \u201csharp end\u201d of portal frame haunches \u2013 where the haunch flange meets the rafter. David Brown and Bogdan Balan of the SCI report on the investigation to demonstrate that in the particular arrangement of portal frame haunches, the rules in BS 5950 are a more appropriate assessment of the need (or not) to add reinforcement.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In order to retain the accurate formatting of the equations in this technical paper, this article is available as a pdf download only.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Click\u00a0<strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.newsteelconstruction.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/NSCApril2023-Tech.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">here<\/a><\/strong> to download and view it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Zealous application of the rules in EN 1993-1-8 has resulted in stiffeners being provided in rafters at the \u201csharp end\u201d of portal frame haunches \u2013 where the haunch flange meets the rafter. David Brown and Bogdan Balan of the SCI report on the investigation to demonstrate that in the particular arrangement of portal frame haunches, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":37742,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,5,6],"tags":[724,5165,1506],"class_list":["post-37741","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-feature","category-tech","category-featured","tag-portal-frames","tag-rafters","tag-stiffeners"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.newsteelconstruction.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/Tech2304.gif","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3WsLP-9OJ","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsteelconstruction.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37741","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsteelconstruction.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsteelconstruction.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsteelconstruction.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsteelconstruction.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=37741"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsteelconstruction.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37741\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":37744,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsteelconstruction.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37741\/revisions\/37744"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsteelconstruction.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/37742"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsteelconstruction.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=37741"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsteelconstruction.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=37741"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsteelconstruction.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=37741"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}