Date of Publication :7th October 2016

Abstract: Welding is the process of joining two pieces of metal by creating a strong metallurgical bond between them by heating or pressure or both. Welding offers many advantages over bolting and riveting. A test program was carried out to investigate the behavior of welded beam-column joints such as unstiffened seated connection, stiffened seated connection and moment resisting connection under static loading condition. Finite element analysis was performed on beam column joint using ANSYS software and the analyzed results are validated with experimental results. It was observed that load carrying capacity and resilience of seated connection was more than that of other two types of connection. Modified ANSYS results for deflection were in close agreement with experimental results.

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