Abstract: Following an extensive educational program and the provision of the necessary design aids, Canada's national design standard for limit states design of steel structures for buildings, CAN3 S16.1‐M78, is being used to design ...

Abstract: A new set of effective‐length factors is presented for designing doubly symmetric I‐shaped built‐in cantilever beams against lateral‐torsional buckling when subject to different loading and restraint conditions at the ...

Abstract: In cantilever-suspended-span construction, secondary framing members such as open-web steel joists are likely to enhance markedly the stability of the beams that support them. Properly made joist-beam connections enable ...

Abstract: A large-scale, four-story, single bay steel plate shear wall specimen with unstiffened panels was tested using controlled cyclic loading to determine its behavior under an idealized severe earthquake event. The shear wall ...

Abstract: A nonlinear finite-element model for steel plate shear walls was developed and then tested using the as-built dimensions and measured material properties of a large-scale four-story test specimen. When a nonplanar initial ...