In my opinion, RAM Concept is a superb tool. If your floor plan has any degree of irregularity or non-orthogonality, Concept will allow you to confidently evaluate forces and stresses that in the past could only be guessed at or "enveloped." None of the software based on the equivalent frame...
I attended the Steel Structures Technology Center seminar in Portland. Sure enough, the publication of ANSI/AISC 358 has been held up, apparently for administrative reasons, and not due to problems over content. Based on my review of the draft copy, it's a useful and usable document. It...
Let's make a clear distinction. FEMA 353 is one document. AISC 358 is a different document. I've got a flyer from Steel Structures Technology Center saying that seminars on steel connections will be offered in six cities from April through June dealing with the "AISC 358 Prequalified...
Draft title: "Prequalified Connections for Special and Intermediate Steel Moment Frames for Seismic Applications." I have heard from a member of the AISC Connection Prequalification Review Panel, authors of the standard, that it willl be published in April of 2005. To me that means May or...