If you are using load combinations, you should have an axial load on the base plate. For your case axial load will be very small but it will allow you to calculate the eccentricity and everything else using large moment design criteria.
In Mexico HSS square members are usually described as PTR (Profile Tube Rectangular). They are usually found in ASTM A500 (Grade B only) and ASTM A513. You may want to make sure they are ASTM A500.
I agree that one could make it functional but no matter how we consider stability, load paths, torsional effects, etc, uncertainty will be higher than not consider the fly brace to act as a support. For me, it becomes too unpractically, it is best to use them for only one purpose, in most cases...
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I've run some numbers using a steel moment frame building I was working on. Six storeys (4m typical heigth), regular building, 10 m bays. See attached picture.
First, I consider Rayleigh method as suggested by KootK and JoshPlumSE. This method has the advantage that is not very...
Totally agree. Please let me clarify something, my intention is not to avoid the use of well-established methods in structural dynamics or to spread misinformation about something so important for seismic design.
I just think that sometimes it is useful to have aids that help us define if the...
Nowadays, checking results of structural design softwares is a very important task and using approximate formulas can save a lot of time.
How do you deal with fundamental period of buildings depending on its structural system? Do you think it is a property that can be estimated during...
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When calculating the total deflection of a RC beam according to ACI 318R19, I've followed this way: Obtain the inmediate deflection due to sustained loads (D1) and the incremental inmediate deflection due to that portion of the live load not sustained (D2). Then, to compute the ultimate...
