Steel Girt Design
Procedures are presented for the design of light gage cold formed girts and hot rolled girts. The effects of continuity, sag rods, and wall sheeting are discussed. Design procedures are...
Buckling of Unsymmetrical Thin-Walled Members
The formulation of a three-dimensional model based on p-version finite element method for the elastic buckling analysis of unsymmetrical thin-walled members under axial compression and...
Cold-Formed Z-Sections Under Axial Load and Bending
The use of cold-formed Z-section members as beam-columns presents some unique design problems which are not adequately addressed in the current design specifications. If these members...
Automated Load Capacity Determination of Cold-Formed Steel Compression Members
This paper presents an automated approach for the evaluation of the axial load capacity of nine cold-formed steel sections according to the latest AISI-1986 Cold-Formed Steel Specification....
Structures with Semi-Rigid Bolted Connections
Modern methods of aseismic protection encourage use of connections capable to dissipate energy with little or no deformations. The present paper is a summary of studies of semi-rigid bolted...
Seismic Response of Flexibly-Connected Steel Frames
The response of typical low-rise steel building frames designed by the 'Type 2 Construction' method to moderate earthquakes is examined. Such frames are often...
Tests on Brace and Link Connections for EBFs
This paper describes recent test results on the behavior of selected connections for seismic-resistant Eccentrically Braced Frames (EBFs). These tests provided data on the performance...
End Plate Moment Connections for Cyclic Loads
Three pilot tests of full size end plate moment connections under cyclic loading are discussed. In one of the specimens, the premature fracture of one of the inner bolts suggests the possibility...
Behavior of Single Angles Under Compression and Biaxial Bending
Angle struts are being used extensively as web members of trusses, bracings of buildings, and they are widely used as main members in transmission and lattice towers. Because of their...
Stablity Considerations in the New E&CS Building
The new Engineering and Computer Science (E & CS) building at California State University, Sacramento (CSUS) is a five-story structure characterized by two shear walls in the east-west...
Stability Analysis of Steel Compression Members by a Modified Finite Strip Method
The method of structural stability analysis utilized in this paper is a combination of the classical bending theory and the finite strip method. Combining the assumptions of traditional...
Portal Frame Stability with Nonproportional Loads
An inelastic theoretical study of the effect of various load paths is conducted on the in-plane behavior of an imperfect portal frame with flexible joints. The loading consists of concentrated...
Shape Optimization of Joints of Steel-Framed Diaphragm Wall
Shape optimization system of the joints of the steel-framed diaphragm wall (abbreviated as steel diaphragm wall) is discussed. The optimization problem is formulated as the minimum cost...
Discrete Optimization of 3D Steel Frames
The purpose of this paper is to report the results of the application of a general discrete optimization procedure to the design of a realistic, three-dimensional steel building frame....
Optimizing the Design of High-Rise Steel Buildings
The approximate stiffness method is utilized for a proposed procedure to evaluate the stiffness of the various frames and the stiffness of the members within the frames to provide a drift-controlled...
Optimal Design of Tall RC Tube Buildings
The analysis and design of reinforced concrete framed tube buildings is formulated as a nonlinear optimization problem and solved using modern design optimization software. The influence...
Methodology in ODSEWS-2D-II for Optimum Design of Structures to Seismic and Wind Forces
This paper presents the theoretical derivations and numerical procedures used in the computer program called ODSEWS-2D-II for the analysis and optimum design of 2-dimensional regular and...
Wood Diaphragms: Performance Requirements and Analytical Modeling
Wood diaphragms represent the principal mechanisms for resisting lateral loads in many light-frame buildings. While recent research has provided several mathematical models for predicting...
Dynamic Response of a Building with Dual System
The paper presents the dynamic response of a 30-story building with dual system consisting of cross-bracing and beam-column moment resisting frames. Two types of beam-column connections,...
On the Analysis of Viscoelastic Plane Frames
Since its foundation on 1986 the Computational Mechanics Laboratory at the Polytechnic School of Sao Paulo has often been asked for non-linear stability analysis of wood and concrete structures....
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