The block shear strength of staggered bolted connection are investigated both experimentally and numerically.
The hot rolled channel and the gusset plate are tested using universal tensile test machine.
A method is presented to predict the block shear strength of staggered bolted connection.
The presented method is compared with AISC-2010 and Teh-Yazici's approach.
The finite element analysis confirms that the presented method is more accurate than AISC-2010 and Teh-Yazici's approach.