Structural Articles – Adan Engineering http://adanengineering.com Structrual and Earthquake Engineering of Buildings and Strucutes Mon, 27 Nov 2017 23:43:39 +0000 en-US hourly 1 “Steel Special Moment Frames: Connection Seismic Requirements,” STRUCTURE Magazine, November 2010 http://adanengineering.com/2010/11/steel-special-moment-frames/ Tue, 02 Nov 2010 09:05:40 +0000 http://adanengineering.com/Wordpress/?p=509 The recently published article co-authored by Scott Adan, Ph.D., S.E., SECB of Adan Engineering and Ron Hamburger, S.E., SECB of Simpson Gumpertz & Heger, discusses the seismic requirements for steel special moment frame connections. The connections must be capable of transferring moment and shear forces that can be developed in the beam to the column. As a result of material and system overstrength, these moment and shear forces can be substantially larger than the design forces specified by the building code.

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