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The fact that labour-intensive assembly and welding work has considerably increased production costs in recent years is certainly one of the reasons why competitiveness is limited in some areas of steel construction. A …
The fact that labour-intensive assembly and welding work has considerably increased production costs in recent years is certainly one of the reasons why competitiveness is limited in some areas of steel construction. A technology that could dispense with all welding work would therefore be of particular economic advantage. A first step in this direction has been taken by the Studiengesellschaft für Anwendungstechnik von Eisen und Stahl e.V. with the realisation of the project "Stiffenerless steel skeleton constructions". The second step that still needs to be taken is the development of weld-free connections at the column base, at the column head and between vertical and horizontal structural members.
If this development is successful, a simplified and more cost-effective steel construction could be carried out in some areas, consisting of the assembly of "machined" rolled sections, hollow sections and cold-formed sections using standardised spacers and bolts. The term "machined" here means that profile parts have been cut to size and drilled. In this sense, weldless connections on steel columns can also be used as integrated elements for concrete construction. The present report is a work in which all connections currently in use for components from different areas have been compiled in the form of a literature research and analysed in the direction of new solutions. The result is that only a few of the solution principles presented here can be used for steel construction in the sense of a "weldless connection". It is therefore suggested that further investigations be carried out to develop application-ready solutions from the approaches presented. The tendency here is to develop the "weldless connection" as a type of quick connection - if possible without screws - for assembly (clamp and plug-in connections), but to carry out welding in the workshop in the interests of overall optimisation.
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