Effective length and notional load approaches for assessing frame stability
Subtitle: implications for American steel design
By: by the Task Committee on Effective Length of the Technical Committee on Load and Resistance Factor Design of the Technical Division of the Structural Engineering Institute of the American Society of Civil Engineers.
Contributors: Structural Engineering Institute. Technical Committee on Load and Resistance Factor Design. Task Committee on Effective Length.
Publisher: The Society; Amer Society of Civil Engineers
Published: 1997
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 442
Subjects: Building, Iron and steel.; Structural frames -- Design and construction.; Structural stability.; Load factor design.; Steel, Structural.
Description: This report provides a thorough understanding of the assumptions with respect to column and frame stability made in the American Institute of Steel Construction (AISC) specifications and presents the derivation and use of one alternate approach that is in common use in some form within several other design standards. Of the three techniques for stability design discussed, two approaches are based on the use of effective length factors and the third method involves the use of a notional load approach.

Examples are included to illustrate the procedures for both common and unusual conditions encountered in practice, along with discussions on the advantages and disadvantages of each of the methods. This report is applicable to both unbraced and braced frames having either fully-restrained or partially-restrained connections.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.