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Originally Posted by sheeny
Mild steel is fine. Its the same stiffness as carbon steel, but just won't handle the same stresses - but that's not our problem with a pier.  (BTW Mild steel is carbon steel, too , it's just low carbon steel  ).
Full continuous welds all round are the go, but there's nothing wrong with a fillet weld for a pier either  . Full penetration prepared welds are only necessary for highly stressed and/or fatigue loaded components - which the pier isn't  .
If you can keep the width of the flange less than 4x (5x max) the flange thickness, you'll be fine . There's no gussets on my pier.
Al. |
Thanks - and I did say I was rusty on that stuff. (
OOoo , no pun intended.)