Skip to main content
Cart

Concrete Breakout Strength of Shear Lug Design (Hilti Profis Program)

Posted by Charlie Gardnerover 2 years ago
Concrete Breakout Strength of Shear Lug Design (Hilti Profis Program)

Hello, I am doing a "Anchoring to Concrete" calculation and am applying a shear lug to my anchor plate. I've applied a load in the Vx direction, and there is a concrete edge breakout failure. When looking at the calculation report, the controlling equation is ACI 318-19 Eq (17.7.2.1a). My question is why would this equation be considered in the design? This equation applies to a single anchor, however the shear lug should be taking the shear, not the anchor. I am not sure if this check should be applied, and that the concrete breakout should be based on the shear lug, not the anchor. Any clarification would be appreciated.

Shear Lug,Hilit Profis,Calculation explanation

2 Replies
Posted by Ashley Couronover 2 years ago
Hilti Verified

Hi Charlie, 


Attached below is a snippet from an Ask Hilti article discussing integrating shear lug design with ACI anchoring-to-concrete provisions.

For further assistance, please email your ".pe" file and any additional questions to hnatechnicalservices@hilti.com.

Regards,
Ashley

Profis engineering software

Posted by Charlie Gardnerover 2 years ago

When doing a hand calc to calculate concrete shear breakout in example 4.9 in the attached document, I'm getting a capacity of about 12.8 kips, which would satisfy the shear design. I believe the Profis program is incorrect in this case.