Abstract: Thermal stresses are frequently used to camber steel beams or repair damage caused by plastic deformation. A local concentration of heat is applied to part of the structure. The heated steel expands, but expansion is ...

Abstract: Seismic tests on a full‐scale six‐story steel building have been conducted as part of the U.S.‐Japan Joint Research Program. The first phase of this research includes extensive tests on a concentrically braced frame, and ...

Abstract: Welded-flange-bolted-web connections were damaged during the Northridge Earthquake, and the SAC Steel Project was started to find solutions to the problems caused by this damage. The Connection Performance Team was one of ...

Abstract: Welded-flange–bolted-web connections were damaged during the 1994 Northridge Earthquake. The SAC Steel Project was started to address the problems associated with this damage. The Connection Performance Team completed ...

Abstract: Bridges expand and contract due to temperature changes. These movements are estimated in design, and expansion joints and bridge bearings are designed to accommodate the movements. Integral construction is another means ...

Abstract: The response of bridges exposed to thermal environment conditions is studied. Analytical methods are developed to obtain temperature distributions and the maximum bridge temperature ranges. Thermoelastic analysis is conducted ...

Abstract: The problem of lateral torsional stability of cantilevers with continuous elastic or rigid lateral restraint is examined via a direct variational approach and in view of three major influence parameters: (1) Height of ...