Design of steel MRF connections before and after 1994 Northridge earthquake

Engineering Structures

Volumn 20, Issue 12, 1998, Pages 1030-1038

  Paul Popov, Egor ^a   Yang, Tzong Shuoh ^a   Chang, Shih Po ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Beam to column connections; Seismic connections; Steel connections; Welded connections

Indexed keywords

COLUMNS (STRUCTURAL); CRACK INITIATION; EARTHQUAKE RESISTANCE; ELASTOPLASTICITY; FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; FLANGES; FRACTURE MECHANICS; INTEGRAL EQUATIONS; STEEL BEAMS AND GIRDERS; STRESS CONCENTRATION; STRUCTURAL DESIGN; WELDED STEEL STRUCTURES;

MOMENT-RESISTING FRAMES (MRF);

STRUCTURAL FRAMES;

EID: 0032345105     PISSN: 01410296     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0141-0296(97)00200-9     Document Type: Article

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