Structural Details: Is Anything Missing?
While actual failure of a structure is uncommon, many projects have less publicized, detailing-related difficulties involving rework, changes, clarifications, and increased costs. If the...
Recent Lifeline Seismic Risk Studies
This monograph is a collection of four papers presented at the 1990 Annual Civil Engineering Convention and Exposition in San Francisco, California. The papers summarize seismic loss and...
Structures Congress Abstracts 1990
Abstract only. The following themes are included: Rehabilitation and future challenges, Bridges, Earthquake engineering, Dynamic loads on structures, Metals and composite construction,...
Summary Report on the Computer Analysis of the Colossus
This chapter briefly discusses the results of a computer analysis of the Colossus....
Deck Park Covers Phoenix Freeway
The last link in interstate I-10, the coast to coast highway from Florida to California, will be completed in Phoenix, Arizona in 1989. The last eleven-mile section through Phoenix has...
Reconstruction Under Traffic: A Study of Some Effects of the Dan Ryan Project on Motor Carrier Operations in Northeast Illinois
The paper discusses preparations by the Chicago Area Transportation Study for a study of the operational responses of truckers to whatever effects upon the regional highway system are...
Load-Permit Truck Operations in New York State
This paper presents the results of a survey of indivisible-load permit vehicle operations in New York State. The survey was conducted in the context of an investigation into the impacts...
Analyzing in 3D
Suggestions for modeling and evaluating three-dimensional (3D) structures are presented. These suggestions are based on the authors' sixteen years of day to day involvement...
Some General Remarks on the Structural Behavior and Load-Extension Characteristics of Coated Fabrics with Special Reference to PTFE-Coated Glass-Fiber Fabric
The understanding of fabric behavior, and of coated fabrics in particular, is essential for the design and analysis of fabric structures. Although many research papers have been published...
Improved Techniques for Assessing Structures
The Electric Power Research Institute (EPRI) has specially designed and equipped the tower testing station located within their Transmission Line Mechanical Research Center (TLMRC) near...
Effective Length Factors for Type-PR Frame Members
The effects of PR-Type connections and loading arrangement on frame stability and the effective length factor of columns are evaluated for portal frames and three-story three-bay frames...
Behavior of Plates Under Partial Edge Loading
This paper addresses one of the common problems in designing thin-walled members, the ability of the shape to accommodate in-plane concentrated loads. Specific areas in which the problem...
Limit State Analysis Correlated to a Full Scale Tower Test
A Limit State analysis technique has been developed for evaluating the structural capacity of lattice steel electrical transmission towers. The tower strength is determined by using a...
Variation in Design Practice for Lattice Towers
The design and analysis procedures employed for lattice transmission towers vary among countries, companies, and designers. This variation in design practice affects the relative reliability...
New Outlines for 500 kV Transmission Towers Using Cold-Formed Shapes: The Experimental Line of the American Electric Power Research Institute
The use of cold-formed steel members, in electrical transmission towers, is actually a feasible, reliable and economical solution. The EPRI experimental line is an example of the newest...
Simple Methods for Design of Steel Gusset Plates
This paper presents two simple methods for design of steel gusset plates. In the first method, the wedge theories are applied to establish state of stress in steel gusset plates. In the...
Space Frame Experimental Behavior
Previous tests on double layer grid space frames have shown that, in some cases, significant initial forces exist. In addition, for externally determinate symmetrical tests, there was...
Elastic Stability of Non-Prismatic Columns
A matrix analysis technique for determining the elastic buckling loads for columns of general form is presented along with several numerical examples. In this technique, a non-prismatic...
Optimum Design of Tapered Tubular Members
An algorithm for designing a tubular structural member with constant taper is presented. The design criterion is that the maximum absolute stress produced by a set of loading conditions...
Buckling of Variable Cross-Section Columns
An approximate solution for the problem of buckling of variable cross-section columns, loaded by variable axial force is given, for several boundary conditions. Both the cross-section...
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