AISC Design Guide 13 – Stiffening Of Wide-Flange Column At Moment Connections (KET0033)

AISC Design Guide 13 – Stiffening Of Wide-Flange Column At Moment Connections, Contents:

1. Introduction

1.1     Scope

1.2     Column Stiffening

1.3     References Specifications

1.4     Definitions of Wind. Low-Seismic, and High-Seismic Applications

1.5     Acknowledgements

2. Strong-Axis Moment Connections to Unreinforced Columns

2.1     Force Transfer in Unreinforced Columns

2.2     Determining the Design Strength of an Unreinforced Column

2.3     Column Cross-Sectional Stiffness Considerations

2.4     Design Aids

3. Economical Selection of Columns

3.1     Achieving Balance Between Increases in Material Cost and Reductions in Labor Cost

3.2     Eliminating Column Stiffening

3.3     Minimizing the Economic Impact of Column Stiffening Requirements in Wind and Low- Seismic Applications

3.4     Minimizing the Economic Impact of Column Stiffening Requirements in High-Seismic Applications

4. Strong-Axis Moment Connections to Stiffened Columns

4.1     Determining the Column Stiffening Requirements

4.2     Force Transfer in Stiffened Columns

4.3     Design of Transverse Stiffeners

4.4     Design of Web Doubler Plates

5. Special Considerations

5.1 Column Stiffening for Beams of Differing Depth and/or Top of Steel

5.2     Column Stiffening for Weak-Axis Moment Connections

5.3     Column Stiffening for Concurrent Strong- and Weak-Axis Moment Connections

5.4     Web Doubler Plates as Reinforcement for Local Web Yielding. Web Crippling, and/or Compression Buckling of the Web

5.5     Web Doubler Plates at Locations of Weak-Axis Connections

5.6     Diagonal Stiffeners

6. Design Examples

Example 6-1

Example 6-2

Example 6-3

Example 6-4

Example 6-5

Example 6-6

Example 6-7

Example 6-8

Example 6-9

Example 6-10

Example 6-11

Example 6-12

Example 6-13

Example 6-14

APPENDIX A

APPENDIX B

APPENDIX C

APPENDIX D

Special Considerations

Moment Connections to Column Webs

AISC Design Guide 13 – Stiffening Of Wide-Flange Column At Moment Connections

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