Design Guide 16 covers the design of flush and extended multiple row moment end-plate connections. The text includes a review of the uses and classifications of moment end-plate connections, general end-plate connection design procedures, and specific procedures for flush...
Material Description A staggered-truss frame is designed with steel framing members and concrete floors. Most often, the floor system is precast concrete hollow-core plank. Other options, including concrete supported on metal deck with steel beams or joists, can be used. With precast plank...
INTRODUCTION The January 17, 1994 Northridge Earthquake caused brittle fractures in the beam-to-column connections of certain welded steel moment frame (WSMF) structures (Youssef et al. 1995). No members or buildings collapsed as a result of the connection failures and no lives were lost....
INTRODUCTION This design guide is an update to the AISC publication Torsional Analysis of Steel Members and advances further the work upon which that publication was based: Bethlehem Steel Company's Torsion Analysis of Rolled Steel Sections (Heins and Seaburg, 1963). Coverage of shapes has...
Preface This booklet was prepared under the direction of the Committee on Research of the American Institute of Steel Construction, Inc. as part of a series of publications on special topics related to fabricated structural steel. Its purpose is to serve as a supplemental reference to the AISC...
PREFACE This booklet was prepared under the direction of the Committee on Research of the American Institute of Steel Construction, Inc. as part of a series of publications on special topics related to fabricated structural steel. Its purpose is to serve as a supplemental reference to the AISC...