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AISC seeks comments on draft earthquake standard for steel buildings

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AISC seeks comments on draft earthquake standard for steel buildings

Includes new limits for cross-sectional slenderness of steel columns based on latest research.


By Peter Fabris, Contributing Editor | January 17, 2022
Steel tubes and beams

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The American Institute of Steel Construction (AISC) recently issued a draft of AISC 341, a standard that provides guidance on designing earthquake-resistant steel buildings and it is available for public comments.

The draft standard incorporates new design limits for steel columns based on research conducted by the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) and the University of California San Diego. Using a shake table, researchers identified deficiencies in the performance of a certain type of column, with many test assemblies buckling prematurely.

Based on the findings, the researchers devised new limits for the cross-sectional slenderness of steel columns. “A lot of current design provisions are based on scaled-down column tests or a very small number of full-scale tests,” said NIST structural engineer John Harris in a news release. “But the full-scale testing we conducted has allowed us to begin filling in the knowledge gap regarding the performance of these kinds of columns under extreme loading conditions.”

The draft includes new slenderness limits on columns, with structural steel webs—sized according to the new limit—that could meet drift and stability requirements at the same time. The more stringent limits on steel column webs could soften the blow of earthquakes, potentially saving newly designed buildings from unnecessary damage or partial collapse.

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