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Showing 1 to 10 of 10 for “"Metal Buildings"”.
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Extraction of Structural Component Geometries in Point Clouds of Metal Buildings
Digital models are essential to quantifying the behavior of structural systems. In many cases, the creation of these models involves manual measurements taken in the field, followed by a manual creation of this model using these measurements. Both of these steps are time consuming and prohibitively …
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Assessment of Analytical Procedures for Designing Metal Buildings for Wind Drift Serviceability
While designing metal buildings for wind drift, for simplicity of analysis and design, connection at base of column is considered as pinned which provides no rotational restraint. The actual behavior of the connection however, is partially rigid, that provides some rotational stiffness even in case …
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Structural Optimization using the Principle of Virtual Work and an Analytical Study on Metal Buildings
… was then used to analyze the behavior of metal building frames under various loadings. The focus of this study was to determine the effect modeling the column base connection as partially rigid has on wind drift in metal building frames. Before beginning the study, a literature review was …
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Strength evaluation of strut-purlins
… are commonly used in the roof systems of metal buildings. However, the design problem of combined uplift and axial loads on these members is not adequately addressed in the 1989 AISI specification. The objective of this thesis is to provide experimental evidence that strut-purlins can be …
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Flange bracing requirements for metal building systems
… for complex frame geometries typically found in metal buildings can prove to be an arduous task given current methods. The American Institute of Steel Construction's Appendix 6 from the 2010 Specification for Structural Steel Buildings affords engineers a means for determining brace strength and …
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Towards a Better Understanding of the Fundamental Period of Metal Building Systems
Metal buildings account for over 40% of low-rise construction in the US. Despite this, predictive fundamental period equations that were obtained empirically for mid-rise construction are used in seismic design. Analytical modeling of metal building frames implied that these equations significantly …
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Influence of Column-Base Fixity On Lateral Drift of Gable Frames
In a typical light metal building, the structural members are designed for the forces and moments obtained from the wind drift analysis, which assumes pinned connections at the base. The pinned connections provide no moment at the base and have zero rotational stiffness. However, in reality every …
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Developing and Validating New Bolted End-Plate Moment Connection Configurations
… moment carrying connections for any type of buildings, in particular the metal building industry. A total of four connection configurations, namely eight-bolt extended four wide, eight-bolt extended stiffened, six bolt flush unstiffened and twelve bolt extended unstiffened, have been …
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Development and Validation of a Twelve Bolt Extended Stiffened End-Plate Moment Connection
Three end-plate moment connection configurations are prequalified for special moment frames for seismic applications in AISC 358-10. The eight bolt extended stiffened connection is the strongest of the three configurations, but it can only develop approximately 30 percent of currently available …
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Computational and Experimental Study on the Behavior of Diaphragms in Steel Buildings
… types of floor and roof diaphragms in steel buildings, such as concrete-filled steel deck diaphragms for the floor system and bare steel deck diaphragms for the roof system of a typical steel braced frame building, and standing seam roof diaphragms for a typical metal building. Compared to …