New ASCE Publication Provides Overview of Design Connections for Composite Special Moment Frames

RESTON, Va. – ASCE’s newest publication, Composite Special Moment Frames: Wide Flange Beam to Concrete-Filled Steel Column Connections provides a state-of-the-art overview for designing connections for composite special moment frames (C-SMFs). This book focuses on beam-to-column moment connections for both continuous beam and continuous column connections, and C-SMFs with rectangular or circular concrete-filled tube (CFT) columns.

Prepared by the Composite Construction Committee of the Metals Technical Administrative Committee the book provides an experimental database of 165 tests conducted on beam-to-column connections for C-SMFs, design equations, and examples for estimating the panel zone shear strength of double split-tee.

This book will be a valuable resource enabling structural engineers to design composite frames more efficiently.

To purchase online visit the ASCE Bookstore

Limited review copies are available for book reviews. Please contact Kevin Higgins, khiggins@asce.org; phone 703-295-6266.

You can browse books, learn more about structural engineering, and network at SEI Structures Congress, March 10-13, 2021, Seattle, WA www.structurescongress.org #Structures21, the Premier Event in Structural Engineering.

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