Comparison of the Third and Fourth Edition of the Guide: What is New and Different
The fourth edition of the 'Guide to Stability Design Criteria for Metal Structures' is a unique collection of ideas and information on stability problems. It...
Centrally Loaded Columns
The paper has given a detailed description of the chapter on centrally loaded columns that will appear in the 4th Edition of the Structural Stability Research Council 'Guide...
Beam-Columns
The Fourth Edition of the SSRC Guide presents a state-of-the-art information on beam-columns for use by specification writers, researchers, and designers. The present paper is an extremely...
Frame Stability
The Chapter on Frame Stability of the Fourth Edition of the SSRC Guide provides guidance on use of several stability design procedures. These include Critical Load Concept, Second-Order...
Effect of Connector Spacing on Double Angle Compressive Strength
The 1986 AISC 'Load and Resistance Factor Design (LRFD) Specification for Structural Steel Buildings' includes new rules affecting the design of built-up members...
Reliability-oriented Design of Fatigue Experiments
It is well known in the reliability analysis for structural components subjected to cyclic random load that apart from the usually model parameters uncertainties are most important and...
Reliability Revision for Structures in Service
Models of structural reliability are called upon to provide not only initial estimates of safety, but also revised estimates reflecting new information on the structure as it becomes available....
Fatigue Design Criteria for Welded Steel Details
A review of fatigue data and reassessment of the 1983 fatigue specification resistance functions has been conducted. Since the AASHTO specification fatigue resistance provisions were introduced...
Base Isolation for Reinforced Concrete Structures
A recent experimental program has been carried out at the Earthquake Simulator Laboratory of the Earthquake Engineering Research Center in which a 1/5th scale reinforced concrete structural...
Structural Considerations of Cellular Concrete
Although not normally considered to be a structural material, cellular concrete possesses characteristics which may result in its having structural applications in building and structural...
Concrete Shell Design for Membrane Stress
A methodology is presented which covers the design of reinforced concrete shells for membrane stress. The methodology follows the strength design method of the ACI 318-83 Building Code...
Large Reinforced Concrete Active Reclaim Silos
The design and construction of large reinforced concrete shell silos used to provide economical short-term protected storage for coal and lignite in the active reclaim systems of power...
The Ultimate Load Design Method of R/C and P/C Shell
Based on the testing results of 20 full size shells and models, the ultimate load analysis method is proposed to design four different kinds of reinforced concrete shallow shell structures....
Substitute Wind Concept for Elastic Stability of Cooling Tower Shells
The influence of the nonaxisymmetric wind distribution on the stability behavior of cooling tower shells is examined. It is demonstrated, considering about 50 cooling tower shells, that...
Applied P-Delta Methods in the Design Office
At first glance some axioms of a P-Delta analysis appear to be paradoxical. First, the P-Delta effects are a direct function of the depth of the structure parallel to the wind direction....
Practical Application of PR Connections and Second Order Analysis
In the present LRFD Specifications type PR (Partially Restrained) connections are described as those where the connections of beams and girders possess an insufficient rigidity to hold...
Design of Steel Buildings for Second Order Effects
Several methods of calculating corrected effective length factors for unbraced frames are presented and discussed. In addition, an alternate format is suggested for the ASD beam-column...
Second Order Analysis of a 47-Story Building
A modern day second order analysis and ultimate strength review is made of a hypothetical 47-story unbraced frame designed under the 1969 AISC Specification. The original design is part...
Tall Building Stability -- Practical Considerations
Simple techniques for including lateral stability effects in the design of tall buildings are proposed. The application of these techniques in the design of a 66-story building is described....
Frame Stability - A Canadian Designer's Approach
The deficiencies and fallacies of the simplistic effective column length approach to frame stability are demonstrated through its application to a 57-story rigidly framed building structure....
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