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  1. Elijah B

    Seismic Allowable Stress Increase

    ASCE 7-10 12.4.3.3 states that "allowable stresses are permitted to be determined using an allowable stress increase of 1.2" when using load combinations that include seismic overstrength factor. Does this mean that when designing a moment splice with an overstrength factor of '3', we can...
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