Economic aspects of the use of partial and full strength joints on multi-storey unbraced steel frames

• Main Authors: Md. Tahir, Mahmood, Mohammad, Shahrin, Yahaya, Nordin, Saad, Sarifuddin, Abd. Rahman, Ahmad Baharuddin
• Format: Monograph
• Language: English
• Published: Universiti Teknologi Malaysia 2006
• Subjects: TH Building construction; TA Engineering (General). Civil engineering (General)
• Online Access: http://eprints.utm.my/id/eprint/2712/1/74109.pdf; http://eprints.utm.my/id/eprint/2712/; http://www.academia.edu/402012/Economic_Aspects_of_The_Use_of_Partial_and_Full_Strength_Joints_on_Multi-Storey_Unbraced_Steel_Frames
• Institution: Universiti Teknologi Malaysia

Connections are usually designed as pinned or rigid although the actual behaviour is known to fall between these two extreme cases. The use of partial strength or semi-rigid connections has been encouraged by codes and studies on the matter known as semi-continuous construction have proven that subs...