Research and Applications in Structural Engineering, Mechanics and Computation – Zingoni (Ed.)
© 2013 Taylor & Francis Group, London, ISBN 978-1-138-00061-2
Design by inelastic analysis – 2010 AISC specification
R.D. Ziemian
Bucknell University, Lewisburg, PA, USA
ABSTRACT: In the latest edition of the American Institute of Steel Construction’s Specification for Structural
Steel Buildings, the design provisions for employing inelastic analysis have been fully revised. This paper
provides an overview of the Specification’s Appendix 1 – Design by Inelastic Analysis and describes the new
opportunities it presents to engineers who want to take better advantage of nonlinear material behavior, especially
the redistribution of member forces as a result of ...