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Rebuilding Philadelphia's El
In reconstructing an urban transit system, the challenge in Philadelphia was to do it without disrupting peak hour commuter traffic or disturbing activities on the street and sidewalks...

Haunches and Hangers
The $210 million VA Medical Center at Houston features a structural system as innovative for the 1990s as the interstitial space concept was in the 1960s. The medical center, designed...

Cambering of Steel Beams
Cold cambering with force in the fabrication shop is an effective and economical method of compensating for deflections of composite beams. Typical beams should be cambered for dead load...

Effect of Imperfections on Structural Performance
This paper briefly describes the effect of initial crookedness and residual stress on the behavior of steel members. Both imperfections are unavoidable consequences of modern fabrication...

Engineering Design Concerns Regarding Steel Fabrication
The precise fabrication of structural steel pieces is an essential part of the process leading to the satisfactory erection and connection of the individual steel elements into the final...

Toronto Skydome Retractable Roof Stadium?The Roof Concept and Design
The Toronto SkyDome is a first of its kind sports stadium with a retractable roof which results in, essentially, a fully open air stadium with the roof fully retracted. This unique roof,...

Changes in Tubular Design Codes
This paper summarizes a number of changes in design provisions for tubular structures that have recently been adopted. These are the result of a number of research advances concerning...

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...

Stability of Plates Under Eccentric Edge Loads
A linear finite element analysis was conducted to study the stress distribution in the web and the flange when the beam is subjected to a patch load applied in the plane of the web or...

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...

Analysis of Tapered and Stepped Columns by Analogy to Cantilever Deflection
An analysis is developed for handling the buckling design of tapered and stepped columns with the aid of the so called 'amplification factors'. When these factors...

Buckling Load of Tapered Columns
The basic tapered column with larger section in the center, is considered using Rayleigh-Timoshenko method. Column has linearly increasing I_o with...

Behavior of Cold-Formed Steel-Concrete Composite Beams
An experimental investigation was conducted at California State University - Long Beach to study the structural behavior of composite beams made of thin-walled cold-formed steel stiffened...

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...

Strength of Biaxially Crooked Jumbo Columns
The ultimate strength of axially loaded jumbo columns with biaxial initial out-of-straightnesses is analyzed by the finite element method. The analysis makes use of the measured residual...

Evaluation of the Rotation Capacity of Wide-Flange Beams Using Shell Finite Elements
Numerical simulation can be useful for planning of experimental tests, performance of parametric studies, and achieving an understanding of complex three-dimensional behavior that may...

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...

Lateral Buckling of Beams: General Considerations
The paper presents a solution for the elastic, lateral-torsional buckling of beams under unequal end moments using Worthington's method of superposition of modes involving...

Optimal Shape Design of Columns for Buckling
A procedure for the shape optimization of a column for prescribed buckling load is developed. The procedure uses a new analysis technique that enables the formulation of the optimization...

 

 

 

 

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