Abstract: Strength determination in usual structural engineering practice is based on failure under monotonically increasing, proportional loadings. The effects of nonproportional load sequences are largely ignored. Specificallyrinformation ...

Abstract: The paper explores the safety of unbraced steel building frames designed according to AISC Type 2 construction under cyclic loadings. The study proceeds in the following steps: The probability of occurrence of live‐wind ...

Abstract: A study of the strength of unbraced steel building frames designed according to AISC Type 2 construction is presented. A nonlinear analysis that includes the effects of geometric and material nonlinearity as well as ...

Abstract: Most stability analyses of building frames are based on the assumption that the beams and columns are rigidly connected. However, many beam-to-column connections exhibit nonrigid, flexible behavior. This paper presents a ...

Abstract: This study is intended to provide experimental verification of the validity of analytical methods for the prediction of the response to loads of flexibly connected steel frames. To this end, test data are provided for the ...