Support clips

Figure 6-12. Bolt load formulas for various platform support clips. (See Figure 6-16 for additional data.)...

Maintenance Loads Tray support members (all beams, support clips, etc.) shall be designed for a concentrated load of 300 Lbs (135 Kg) at any point on the installed assembly. The design shall be based on the corroded thicknesses and an allowable stress of. 9 Fy. For maintenance loads, stresses in tbe tray plates need not be considered. 

These methods provide results with a varying degree of accuracy. Obviously some are considered ball park techniques while others are extremely accurate. The use of one method over another will be determined by how critical the loading is and how critical the vessel is. Obviously it would be uneconomical and impractical to apply finite element analysis on platform support clips. It... 

FIGURE 5.9 Support clip welded on two sides with fillet welds see Giachino et al. [3],... 

Support Clip Welded on Two Sides with Fillet Welds with Force on Short End... 

The following is an example of a design of a support clip with fillet welds with a force applied at the short end of the clip. 

Support Clip with Applied Tensile Force... 

Support Clip with Out-of-Plane Bending Moment... 

A support clip with an out-of-plane bending moment is shown in Figure 5.11. 

An example illustrating the design of a support clip with continuous fillet weld with an in-plane bending moment. 

A support clip has an in-plane bending moment of 50kNM. The clip has the following parameters ... 

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