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HSS Connection Design: Data Center Edition

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September 2, 2026 / 16:00 UTC

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Fast-track erection on data center projects often means favoring bolted connections over welded ones. Join this webinar to see how Southern Steel Engineers applied that approach to a set of complex HSS connections, solved and validated in IDEA StatiCa.

Watch the webinar and learn about

$Quick intro to CBFEM and Geometrically and Materially Nonlinear Analysis (GMNA)$
$Why data center structures create unique HSS connection design challenges$
$Southern Steel case study: HSS connections on a real data center project$
$Code checks according to AISC$
$Q&A session$

Speakers

We will begin the webinar with a brief overview of the engineering principles behind advanced connection analysis, including how Geometrically and Materially Nonlinear Analysis (GMNA) helps engineers capture the real behavior of HSS steel connections under load.

We'll then walk through a data center project from Southern Steel Engineers. Their data center structure called for HSS connections under a fast-track erection schedule, which meant welding was not a practical option.

Whether you regularly design HSS structures or are beginning to encounter them in data center projects, this webinar will provide engineering insight that can be applied to your own designs.

Watch the webinar and learn about:

$Why intersecting members, eccentric loading, and complex weld configurations push HSS connections beyond the scope of conventional code equations$
$How GMNA captures the real behavior of an HSS connection$
$The Southern Steel case study: designing HSS connections on a real data center project$
$How fast-track erection requirements prioritized all-bolted connections, and what that meant for the design$
$Live Q&A$