ABSTRACT
In the present paper, the results of experimental tests of angle specimens subjected to tension and connected by one leg are presented. Structural members of such a form are commonly applied to the steel lattice supports of overhead electrical lines. The bolted connections of angles connected by one leg to gusset plates are under tension and additional bending moment that results from the eccentricity of the bolt group. Majority of available existing experimental and numerical investigations regarding the bolted connections of steel angles in tension have been conducted using mostly short specimens. Within this paper, the influence of the specimen length on the behaviour of angles connected by one leg in tension is shown on the basis of the comparison of the results from the experimental tests of shorter and loger specimens of the same size of angle section.
