The beam web slots in the SW test specimens were flame cut along the “k-line” of the beam to a termination hole that was either drilled or thermally cut. The narrow slot width over the shear plate is designed to inhibit beam flange buckling near the face of the column (to protect the beam flange-to-column flange weld) and force the major beam flange buckling to occur over the wider part of the slot.
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