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The Council's efforts to achieve its primary early goal of upgrading and unifying stability design procedures has involved the following:
- Direct cooperation with specification writing bodies.
- Provision in the Guide of alternative design formulas and procedures of varying degrees of complexity.
- Meetings and panel discussions have provided interaction between research workers, educators, and practicing engineers; many of the latter having had their own expertise upgraded by participation in Council committee and task group work.
- Many research workers trained on Council projects have gone into industry; others have written books on design and stability.
Item 3 and 4 of the foregoing are largely intangible. Some specific examples of the Council's efforts with respect to items 1 and 2 are as follows:
- 1953 Reported to AREA on proposed amendments to buckling provisions.
- 1954 Prepared a study of columns with perforated cover plates for the AREA.
- 1961 Provided input for stability design provisions for the 1961 revision to the AISC Building Specifications.
- 1968 Provided material for stability design provisions of the AISC Manual on "Plastic Design of Braced Multi-Story Steel Frames."
- 1969 Participated in the 1969 revision of the AISC Building Design Specifications.
- 1974 The National Building Code of Canada in their Limit States Design Standard adopted curve 2 of the SSRC proposed multiple columns curves.
- 1978 Participated in the 1978 revision of the stability provisions of the AISC Building Design Specifications.
- 1979 Developed design provisions for composite columns consistent with both reinforced concrete and steel design specifications.
- 1980 The National Building Code of Canada adopted Curve 1 of the proposed SSRC multiple column curves for hollow heat-treated structural sections.
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