Semi-Rigid Connections Handbook (Civil & Environmental Engineering (Hardcover)) - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1932159991 ISBN 13: 9781932159998

Publisher: J. Ross Publishing, 2011

Synopsis

Research on the topic of steel frames with semi-rigid connections (Partially Restrained (PR) construction or PR connection) has been conducted over the past 10 years. Despite significant research and development efforts, usage of PR principles has nevertheless been very slow in coming to the profession caused in part by the lack of easy access to reliable test data on these connections and also due to the lack of software for practical implementation. With the publication of the 2005 AISC specifications as well as Eurocode 3, practical implementation of the use of PR connections in structural systems is now a real possibility. This Handbook presents a simple and comprehensive introduction that will help design practitioners implement these new developments into engineering practice. Beginning with a discussion of the new specifications and classifications of these connections, the authors go on to show, on the basis of the collected connections database, practical mathematical models for computer implementation, and provide case studies on these frames including composite construction. With the help of the user-friendly list of collected data in tabular form with illustrative figures, information on semi-rigid connections is now available in a single publication and may ultimately result in its wide-spread usage among practitioners.

About this title

From the Author:

Dr. Wai-Fah Chen was Professor and Dean of the College of Engineering at the University of Hawaii from 1999 to 2006. From 1976 to 1999, he was Head of the Department of Structural Engineering at Purdue University and George E. Goodwin Distinguished Professor of Civil Engineering; prior to that he taught at Lehigh University. The author of more than 300 peer-reviewed publications and author or co-author of 20 books, his primary areas of research are constitutive modeling of engineering materials, soil and concrete plasticity, structural connections, and structural stability. He received his Ph.D. from Brown University. He is a member of the U.S. National Academy of Engineering and an Honorary member of the American Society of Civil Engineers.

About the Author:

Dr. Wai-Fah Chen was Professor and Dean of the College of Engineering at the University of Hawaii from 1999 to 2006. The author or co-author of 20 books, his primary areas of research are constitutive modeling of engineering materials, soil and concrete plasticity, structural connections, and structural stability. He is a member of the U.S. National Academy of Engineering and an Honorary member of the American Society of Civil Engineers.

Dr. Norimitsu Kishi is Professor, Structural Engineering Chair, and Director of the Structural Mechanics Laboratory in the Department of Civil Engineering and Architecture at the Muroran Institute of Technology in Japan.

Dr. Masato Komuro is Assistant Professor at the Muroran Institute of Technology, Department of Civil Engineering and Architecture.

About this edition

• Publisher: J. Ross Publishing
• Publication date: 2011
• ISBN 10: 1932159991
• ISBN 13: 9781932159998
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 1256
• Editor: Chen Wai-Fah