Design for Local Member Shear at Brace and Diagonal Member Connections: Full-Height and Chevron Gusset

The paper "Design for Local Member Shear at Brace and Diagonal-Member Connections: Full-Height and Chevron Gusset" (Sabelli and Saxey, 2021) develops equations for checking local member shear demands using a Concentrated Stress Method (CSM) and presents a design example. This discussion presents results from a finite element (FE) model, based on the design example in the paper, to quantify the accuracy of the proposed design equations in predicting beam yielding.