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Watch Now: Designing Steel Column Base Plate Connections Webinar
Column base plate connections sit at the critical interface between steel and concrete — and between analysis assumptions and real structural behaviour.
Our recent webinar featured MasterKey: Connections Design, demonstrating how to design steel column base plate connections to Eurocode and other international standards.
Webinar Recording
If you missed the live session, you can now watch the full recording:
In this session, we took participants through practical examples in MasterSeries, covering a range of base plate scenarios, including:
- Simple (axial-only) base plate connections and pinned assumptions
- Moment-resisting base plate connections
- Reinforcing moment-resisting bases with stiffeners
- Using shear keys for transferring shear where friction is insufficient
- Anchor failures, bolt pull-out, and concrete checks for edge shear and pry-out
- Hollow section base plate connections and specific detailing challenges
- Designing base plates as part of a 3D frame analysis
- Exporting designed connections to AutoCAD (DXF/DWG)
During the webinar, we answered several participant questions live. A full Q&A document is available for download, providing detailed answers to all questions raised:
Download the full Q&A
We apologise for the audio quality during the session due to technical issues, and appreciate your understanding.
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MasterSeries is a modular structural engineering software suite, offering a wide range of analysis and design tools — from standalone modules such as Connections Design and Masonry Design to fully integrated 3D frame analysis and design solutions.
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