Abstract: This paper presents an experimental study of six steel shear tab connections to hollow structural section columns. This study focuses on the plastic behavior of shear tabs and their supporting column walls. The column walls ...

Abstract: This paper presents an efficient manual design approach, to obtain a near least-weight design by following prescribed procedures, for the preliminary design of long-span king-post steel truss systems. An innovative simplified ...

Abstract: This paper presents a multicriteria optimization method for the performance-based seismic design of steel building frameworks under (equivalent static) seismic loading. Minimizing structural cost (interpreted as structural ...