Hi,
let's say you have to design a RC building in a highly seismic zone and your structure has highly ductile moment frames, aka Special Moment Frames. You have to design the beam-column connections of this structure, obviously. Let's say one of these connections has three beams of those...
I don't think it can be ignored. But the Turkish engineers say that we can/should neglect the cantilever beam because:
1) It is not part of the Special Moment Frame or lateral load-resisting system
2) We will overdesign the joint if we take into account the ultimate moment capacity of the...
Hi,
let's say you have to design a RC building in a highly seismic zone and your structure has highly ductile moment frames, aka Special Moment Frames. You have to design the beam-column connections of this structure, obviously. Let's say one of these connections has three beams of those...