June 18 Webinar | Mastering HSS Connections: A Jolt of Bolting – How to Use Them in HSS Connections

Description

Title: Mastering HSS Connections: A Jolt of Bolting – How to Use Them in HSS Connections
Date: Wednesday, June 18, 2025
Time: 11:00 a.m.–12:00 p.m. CT
Format: Live Webinar
Level: Intermediate, Technical, Engineer/Fabricator

While many fabricators often prefer bolted connections, engineers sometimes grapple with detailing and designing bolted hollow structural steel (HSS) connections effectively. Join us as we dive into the world of bolting options for HSS, covering everything from conventional bolts and through-bolts to access holes and proprietary one-sided bolts. We’ll uncover HSS-specific limit states, recommended details, and provide practical design examples to help you select the ideal bolting solution. Discover how to enhance your HSS bolted connections to streamline fabrication and erection. (1.0 PDH)

• Explore various bolting options for HSS connections.
• Assess best practices and critical limit states for bolted HSS connections.
• Review recommended details and design examples, with a focus on through-bolt connections.
• Gain insights into proprietary one-sided bolt options and key factors to consider when selecting them.

Speaker
Cathleen Jacinto, PE, SE has over 20 years of experience practicing structural engineering on a variety of projects while at Thornton Tomasetti, T.Y. Lin International, and currently at FORSE Consulting. At FORSE, she also contributes to seminars and publications. One topic Cathleen highlights is structural steel HSS design, as a technical consultant to the Steel Tube Institute. She contributes as a Board Member to SEAOI and serves on committees with AISC, ASTM, and AWS. She is a licensed SE and PE in the State of Illinois.

Professional Development Hours
Each participant can earn 1.0 PDH and receive a certificate of completion from the Steel Tube Institute (STI). To receive a certificate from STI, you must login to the webinar via your unique registration link, attend the webinar in its entirety, and complete all poll questions.

Any participant that holds a PE license in Florida, Maryland, New York and/or North Carolina is required to complete a quiz for your PDH. The quiz will be available to the registrant at the conclusion of the webinar.

Registration Types & Fees

• HSS Professional Member
  • Individual: Registration is free with your individual membership.
  • Group: Registration is free with your group membership.
• Non-Member
  • Individual: $95 for individual registration.
  • Group: Only available with an HSS Professional Group Membership.

Individual registration provides a unique link for one login and is eligible for one PDH certificate upon successfully completing the webinar requirements.

Group registration, only available for HSS Professional Group Members, allows multiple attendees to view the webinar in one room or multiple people from the same office to view individually.

• The office contact for the HSS Professional Group Membership will receive a separate email with instructions for group viewing. 
• If viewing in one room, multiple PDH certificates may be issued provided the poll questions are completed by the group leader during the webinar, the group completes quiz together immediately following the webinar, and the attendee list is submitted within 48 hours of the webinar conclusion. All attendees on the list must have attended the webinar for its entirety.
• To view individually, each person will need to register individually.