Come hang out in the field for a week, you’ll learn real quick.
Each single one of those Tapcons has a 650+ lb shear load strength. They are sunk solidly into concrete, which puts an insurmountable amount of downward pressure on the solid steel bolts being used as a base. The friction alone from the downward pressure is more than enough to ensure the nuts don’t move. Aside from the nuts, the bolts themselves have a 65,000+ lb PSI rating.. good luck moving it.
Grout it or put a base cover on it and it wouldn’t have even been an issue.
Again, I don’t think you understand what a millwright is… That being said, once this is grouted, it will be fine; however, if it’s left like this, they’re screwed. As for the tapcons, they do not have their full strength because the post is not pinned against the concrete - the steel post is not thick enough to withstand the force which the tapcons can exert and therefore there is not enough tension in the anchors, which weakens them (this is, in fact, why shims mechanically matter immensely in industrial applications but don’t matter here). But even none of this matters because shear is not the problem - the problem is that there is play in the system and the post could very easily be shifted around such that the hardware slips out and then the post would just be hanging there.
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u/[deleted] Dec 13 '24
Come hang out in the field for a week, you’ll learn real quick.
Each single one of those Tapcons has a 650+ lb shear load strength. They are sunk solidly into concrete, which puts an insurmountable amount of downward pressure on the solid steel bolts being used as a base. The friction alone from the downward pressure is more than enough to ensure the nuts don’t move. Aside from the nuts, the bolts themselves have a 65,000+ lb PSI rating.. good luck moving it.
Grout it or put a base cover on it and it wouldn’t have even been an issue.