Member capacity of bolted steel angles in compression - Influence of realistic end supports

In the second part, systematic numerical calculations are conducted for limit cases of the stiffness of the boundary condition of the load-introducing gusset plates (rigid/hinged). The results are also presented in dependency of the relative slenderness λ¯v. The consolidation of all tests and numerical results shows (besides the well-known difference between one-bolt and two-bolt connections) a very high influence of the end support of the gusset plate.