Abstract: The reliability of floor and roof deflections due to occupancy and snow loads, respectively, and of lateral frame deflections due to wind loads is examined. These deflections are determined for unfactored code‐specified ...

Abstract: An ultimate limit‐state criterion is developed for the seismic reliability assessment of single‐story structures. This criterion is: When the structural precollapse energy absorption capacity is greater than the earthquake ...

Abstract: Minimum‐weight plastic design of continuous composite girders with braced compact sections, as allowed in the autostress design procedure, was investigated according to American Association of State Highway and Transportation ...

Abstract: A new bridge rating method, residual deformation analysis (RDA), is presented. RDA is a method for assessing the residual moments and deformations that are set up in a bridge beam that has been loaded into its inelastic ...

Abstract: In recent years, probability‐based load‐and‐resistance‐factor‐design (LRFD) method has been successfully applied to the design of hot‐rolled steel sections and cold‐formed steel members in the United States and foreign ...

Abstract: In the design of steel buildings, the allowable stress design (ASD) method has long been used for cold‐formed steel structural members in the United States. Recently, the load and resistance factor design (LRFD) criteria ...