Vol. 14, No. 1, pp. 37-56(2018)
TRENDS IN THE CODE DESIGN OF STEEL FRAMED STRUCTURES
N.S. Trahair
Emeritus Professor of Civil Engineering
The University of Sydney
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Received: 3 September 2016; Revised: 13 February 2017; Accepted: 16 February 2017
DOI:10.18057/IJASC.2018.14.1.3
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ABSTRACT
This paper surveys trends in the design of steel framed structures under quasi-static loads with reference to design codes such as the US AISC Specification, the UK BS5950, the Australian AS4100, the European EC3, and the Hong Kong Code of Practice. The paper provides a brief timeline of the development of steel design codes over the past 80 years, summarises the methods of design now permitted in codes, discusses some of the shortcomings of present codes, and suggests future areas for improvement. It is concluded that future design codes might allow the use of purpose-built computer programs which can provide accurate predictions of member strength, and might only describe the characteristics of the methods of structural analysis and the member design strengths which may be used. Such a code would have some of the present member strength inaccuracies and shortcomings removed and allow them to be replaced by the use of more accurate advanced analysis computer programs.
KEYWORDS
Analysis, codes, design, frames, steel, structures
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