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Lateral Restraint Stiffness

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sdz

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Dec 19, 2001
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Re thread744-269173
Attn jhardy1, apsix
Update.
For a current design I came back to this old thread and found a copy of "The Behaviour & Design of Steel Structures to EC3" 4th Ed, 2008
The formula they give for the limiting stiffness of a lateral restraint is
αL=16 pi^2 EI/L^3​


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