2007 Annual Technical Session Proceedings

The 2007 SSRC Annual Stability Conference was heldApril 18-21, 2007 in New Orleans, Louisiana. This conference was the hosted by the AISC's North American Steel Construction Conference. This 598 page book contains papers covering reports of current research activities germane to the various SSRC task groups and task reporters.


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Contents

CONNECTIONS ACROSS THE WORLD'S LONGEST UNDEFENDED BORDER by D.J. Laurie Kennedy

ON THE USE OF FIBER REINFORCED COMPOSITES TO IMPROVE STRUCTURAL DUCTILITY IN STEEL FLEXURAL MEMBERS by N. B. Accord, C.J. Earls, K.A. Harries

OBSERVATIONS OF EIGENVALUE BUCKLING ANALYSIS WITHIN A FINITE CONTEXT by Christoper J. Earls

THE CONCEPT OF POSITIONAL INSTABILITY AND ITS USE FOR LATERAL-TORSIONAL BUCKLING ANALYSIS OF UNBRACED STEEL FRAMES by Konstantin Ashkinadze

OUT-OF-PLANE INSTABILITY CONSIDERING FRAME-MEMBER INTERACTION by Ian MacPherson, Gilbert Y. Grondin

UNSTABLE PLASTIC HINGE FORMATION IN STIFFENED STEEL PLATES by Ming Jin, Gilbert Y. Grondin

DESIGN OF WRAP-AROUND GUSSET PLATES by Bo Dowswell, Fouad H. Fouad

DESIGN OF DISCONTINUOUS COLUMNS FOR AXIAL LOAD AND END-ROTATIONS IN RIGID JOINTED BRACED FRAMES by C.M. King

ANALYTICAL EXAMINATION OF BEHAVIOR OF HORIZONTALLY CURVED BEAM by Dongjoo Kim, Ben T. Yen

DISTORTIONALBUCKING IN STEEL I-GIRDERS by Geoffrey Burrell, Jennifer Righman McConnell

DESIGN OF STEEL BEAM-COLUMNS IN STEEL SWAY FRAMES: FROM THE ACTUAL MEMBER TO A SIMPLY SUPPORTED EQUIVALENT ONE by T. Hansoulle, N. Boissonade, R. Goncalves, D. Camotim, J.P. Jaspart

IN-PLANE STABILITY OF CIRCULAR STEEL ARCHES WITH VARIABLE SUBTANDED ANGLES by Dagowin B. la Poutre

BENDING CAPACITY OF COLD-FORMED STEEL PURLINS WITH TORSIONAL BRACING USING THE BASE TEST by Shideh Shandravan, Chris Ramseyer

BEHAVIOR AND DESIGN OF COLD-FORMED STEEL JOISTS WITH EDGE STIFFENED PERFORATIONS by Cheng Yu

PRACTICAL BUCKLING SOLUTIONS FOR WEB-TAPERED MEMBERS by Yoon Duk Kim, Donald W. White

INELASTIC BENDING CAPACITY IN COLD-FORMED STEEL MEMBERS by Y. Shifferaw, B.W. Schafer

RECOMMENDATIONS FOR THE USE OF DIRECT SECOND-ORDER INELASTIC ANALYSIS TO DESIGN STEEL FRAMES by A.E. Surovek, D.W. White, R.D. Ziemian, D. Camotim, J.F. Hajjar, L.H. Teh

STABILITY INVESTIGATION OF STEEL MEMBERS AND FRAMES UNDER FIRE CONDITIONS by Jiro Takagi, Gregory Deierlein

LATERAL BRACE FORCES IN SINGLE SPAN Z-SECTION ROOF SYSTEMS WITH INTERIOR RESTRAINTS USING THE COMPONENT STIFFNESS METHOD by Michael W. Seek, Thomas M. Murray

BEAM BRACING BEHAVIOR OF SHEAR DIAPHRAGM SYSTEMS by Todd A. Helwig, Joseph A. Yura

ON STABILITY OF TRANSVERSE STIFFENERS by Darko Beg, Jaka Dujc

GBT-BASED ANALYSIS OF THE LOCAL-PLATE DISTORTIONAL AND GLOBAL BUCKLING BEHAVIOR OF THIN-WALLED STEEL FRAMES by C. Basaglia, D. Camotim, N. Silvestre

ON THE POST-BUCKING BEHAVIOR OF COLD-FORMED STEEL LIPPED CHANNEL BEAMS AFFECTED BY LOCAL-PLATE/DISTORTIONAL BUCKLING MODE INTERACTION by Ana Martins, Pedro B. DInis, Dinar Camotim

STEEL PLATE SHEAR WALLS FABRICATED WITH PARTIALLY ENCASED COMPOSITE COLUMNS by Xiaoyan Deng, Robert G. Driver

ADVANCING THE USE OF COMPUTATION IN DESIGN FOR STABILITY: A CASE STUDY OF THE BUCHAREST DOME USING SYMMETRY-ADAPTED COMPUTATION by Marco T. LoRicco, Christopher M. Papadopoulos

COLUMN STABILITY UNDER FIRE LOADING USING FUNDAMENTAL SECTION BEHAVIOR by Amit H. Varma, Sangdo Hong

TRANSVERSE STIFFENERS OF COMPRESSION PANELS by Byung H. Choi, Chai H. Yoo

PROPOSED METHOD FOR THE PREDICTION OF LATERAL RESTRAINT FORCES IN METAL BUILDING ROOM SYSTEMS by Jeff M. Sears, Thomas M. Murray

BUCKLING, POST-BUCKLING AND ULTIMATE STRENGTH OF COLD-FORMED STEEL LIPPED CHANNEL MEMBERS UNDER FIRE CONDITION by M.C. Alves, E.M. Batista, D. Camotim

INELASTIC CYCLIC ANALYSIS AND STABILITY EVALUATION OF STEEL BRACES OF BOX SECTION by Iraj H.P. Mamaghani

NUMERICAL ANALYSES OF CYCLIC SHEAR DEFORMATION RESPONSE OF SHORT BEAMS WITH SANDWICH WEBS by Peter Dusicka, Gregory Lewis