Guide to Stability Design Criteria for Metal Structures 6e

The definitive guide to stability design criteria, fully updated and incorporating current research


Representing nearly fifty years of cooperation between Wiley and the Structural Stability Research Council, the Guide to Stability Design Criteria for Metal Structures is often described as an invaluable reference for practicing structural engineers and researchers. For generations of engineers and architects, the Guide has served as the definitive work on designing steel and aluminum structures for stability. Under the editorship of Ronald Ziemian and written by SSRC task group members who are leading experts in structural stability theory and research, this Sixth Edition brings this foundational work in line with current practice and research.

The Sixth Edition incorporates a decade of progress in the field since the previous edition, with new features including:
* Updated chapters on beams, beam-columns, bracing, plates, box girders, and curved girders. Significantly revised chapters on columns, plates, composite columns and structural systems, frame stability, and arches
* Fully rewritten chapters on thin-walled (cold-formed) metal structural members, stability under seismic loading, and stability analysis by finite element methods
* State-of-the-art coverage of many topics such as shear walls, concrete filled tubes, direct strength member design method, behavior of arches, direct analysis method, structural integrity and disproportionate collapse resistance, and inelastic seismic performance and design recommendations for various moment-resistant and braced steel frames

Complete with over 350 illustrations, plus references and technical memoranda, the Guide to Stability Design Criteria for Metal Structures, Sixth Edition offers detailed guidance and background on design specifications, codes, and standards worldwide.

PREFACE. NOTATION AND ABBREVIATIONS. CHAPTER ONE INTRODUCTION. 1.1 FROM THE METAL COLUMN TO THE STRUCTURAL SYSTEM. 1.2 SCOPE AND SUMMARY OF THE GUIDE. 1.3 MECHANICAL PROPERTIES OF STRUCTURAL METALS. 1.4 DEFINITIONS. 1.5 POSTBUCKLING BEHAVIOR. 1.6 CREDITS FOR THE CHAPTERS IN THE SIXTH EDITION OF THE SSRC GUIDE. CHAPTER TWO STABILITY THEORY. 2.1 INTRODUCTION. 2.2 BIFURCATION BUCKLING. 2.3 LIMIT-LOAD BUCKLING. CHAPTER THREE CENTRALLY LOADED COLUMNS. 3.1 INTRODUCTION. 3.2 COLUMN STRENGTH. 3.3 INFLUENCE OF IMPERFECTIONS. 3.4 INFLUENCE OF END RESTRAINT. 3.5 STRENGTH CRITERIA FOR STEEL COLUMNS. 3.6 ALUMINUM COLUMNS. 3.7 STAINLESS STEEL COLUMNS. 3.8 TAPERED COLUMNS. 3.9 BUILT-UP COLUMNS. 3.10 STEPPED COLUMNS. 3.11 GUYED TOWERS. CHAPTER FOUR PLATES. 4.1 INTRODUCTION. 4.2 ELASTIC LOCAL BUCKLING OF FLAT PLATES. 4.3 INELASTIC BUCKLING, POST-BUCKLING, AND STRENGTH OF FLAT PLATES. 4.4 BUCKLING, POST-BUCKLING AND STRENGTH OF STIFFENED PLATES. 4.5 BUCKLING OF ORTHOTROPIC PLATES. 4.6 INTERACTION BETWEEN PLATE ELEMENTS. CHAPTER FIVE BEAMS. 5.1 INTRODUCTION. 5.2 ELASTIC LATERAL-TORSIONAL BUCKLING, PRISMATIC I-SECTION MEMBERS. 5.3 FUNDAMENTAL COMPARISON OF DESIGN STANDARDS, PRISMATIC I-SECTION MEMBERS. 5.4 STEPPED, VARIABLE WEB DEPTH, AND OTHER NONPRISMATIC I-SECTION MEMBERS. 5.5 CONTINUOUS-SPAN COMPOSITE I-SECTION MEMBERS. 5.6 BEAMS WITH OTHER CROSS-SECTION TYPES. 5.7 DESIGN FOR INELASTIC DEFORMATION CAPACITY. 5.8 CONCLUDING REMARKS. CHAPTER SIX PLATE GIRDERS. 6.1 INTRODUCTION. 6.2 PRELIMINARY SIZING. 6.3 WEB BUCKLING AS A BASIS FOR DESIGN. 6.4 SHEAR STRENGTH OF PLATE GIRDERS. 6.5 GIRDERS WITH NO INTERMEDIATE STIFFENERS. 6.6 STEEL PLATE SHEAR WALLS. 6.7 BENDING STRENGTH OF PLATE GIRDERS. 6.8 COMBINED BENDING AND SHEAR. 6.9 PLATE GIRDERS WITH LONGITUDINAL STIFFENERS. 6.10 END PANELS. 6.11 DESIGN OF STIFFENERS. 6.12 PANELS UNDER EDGE LOADING. 6.13 FATIGUE. 6.14 DESIGN PRINCIPLES AND PHILOSOPHIES. 6.15 GIRDERS WITH CORRUGATED WEBS. 6.16 RESEARCH NEEDS. CHAPTER SEVEN BOX GIRDERS. 7.1 INTRODUCTION. 7.2 BASES OF DESIGN. 7.3 BUCKLING OF WIDE FLANGES. 7.4 BENDING STRENGTH OF BOX GIRDERS. 7.5 NOMINAL SHEAR STRENGTH OF BOX GIRDERS. 7.6 STRENGTH OF BOX GIRDERS UNDER COMBINED BENDING, COMPRESSION AND SHEAR. 7.7 INFLUENCE OF TORSION ON STRENGTH OF BOX GIRDERS. 7.8 DIAPHRAGMS. 7.9 TOP FLANGE LATERAL BRACING OF QUASI-CLOSED SECTIONS. 7.10 RESEARCH NEEDS. CHAPTER EIGHT BEAM-COLUMNS. 8.1 INTRODUCTION. 8.2 STRENGTH OF BEAM-COLUMNS. 8.3 UNIAXIAL BENDING: IN-PLANE STRENGTH. 8.4 UNIAXIAL BENDING: LATERAL-TORSIONAL BUCKLING. 8.5 EQUIVALENT UNIFORM MOMENT FACTOR. 8.6 BIAXIAL BENDING. 8.7 SPECIAL TOPICS. CHAPTER NINE HORIZONTALLY CURVED STEEL GIRDERS. 9.1 INTRODUCTION. 9.2 HISTORICAL REVIEW. 9.3 FABRICATION AND CONSTRUCTION. 9.4 ANALYSIS METHODS. 9.5 STABILITY OF CURVED I-GIRDERS. 9.6 STABILITY OF CURVED BOX GIRDERS. 9.7 CONCLUDING REMARKS. CHAPTER TEN COMPOSITE COLUMNS AND STRUCTURAL SYSTEMS. 10.1 INTRODUCTION. 10.2 U.S.-JAPAN RESEARCH PROGRAM. 10.3 CROSS-SECTIONAL STRENGTH OF COMPOSITE SECTIONS . 10.4 OTHER CONSIDERATIONS FOR CROSS-SECTIONAL STRENGTH. 10.5 LENGTH EFFECTS. 10.6 FORCE TRANSFER BETWEEN CONCRETE AND STEEL. 10.7 DESIGN APPROACHES. 10.8 STRUCTURAL SYSTEMS AND CONNECTIONS FOR COMPOSITE AND HYBRID STRUCTURES. 10.9 SUMMARY. CHAPTER ELEVEN STABILITY OF ANGLE MEMBERS. 11.1 INTRODUCTION. 11.2 REVIEW OF EXPERIMENTAL AND ANALYTICAL. 11.3 RESEARCH SINGLE-ANGLE COMPRESSION MEMBERS. 11.4 CURRENT INDUSTRY PRACTICE FOR HOT-ROLLED SINGLE-ANGLE MEMBERS IN THE UNITED STATES. 11.5 DESIGN CRITERIA FOR HOT-ROLLED ANGLE COLUMNS IN EUROPE, AUSTRALIA AND JAPAN. 11.6 DESIGN OF AXIALLY LOADED COLD-FORMED SINGLE ANGLES. 11.7 CONCLUDING REMARKS ON THE COMPRESSIVE STRENGTH OF ECCENTRICALLY LOADED SINGLE-ANGLE MEMBERS. 11.8 MULTIPLE ANGLES IN COMPRESSION. 11.9 ANGLES IN FLEXURE. CHAPTER TWELVE BRACING. 12.1 INTRODUCTION. 12.2 BACKGROUND. 12.3 SAFETY FACTORS, FACTORS AND DEFINITIONS. 12.4 RELATIVE BRACES FOR COLUMNS OR FRAMES. 12.5 DISCRETE BRACING SYSTEMS FOR COLUMNS. 12.6 CONTINUOUS COLUMN BRACING. 12.7 LEAN-ON SYSTEMS . 12.8 COLUMNS BRACED ON ONE FLANGE. 12.9 BEAM BUCKLING AND BRACING. 12.10 BEAM BRACING. CHAPTER THIRTEEN THIN-WALLED METAL CONSTRUCTION. 13.1 INTRODUCTION. 13.2 MEMBER STABILITY MODES (ELASTIC). 13.3 EFFECTIVE WIDTH MEMBER DESIGN. 13.4 DIRECT STRENGTH MEMBER DESIGN. 13.5 ADDITIONAL DESIGN CONSIDERATIONS. 13.6 STRUCTURAL ASSEMBLIES. 13.7 STAINLESS STEEL STRUCTURAL MEMBERS. 13.8 ALUMINUM STRUCTURAL MEMBERS. 13.9 TORSIONAL BUCKLING. CHAPTER FOURTEEN CIRCULAR TUBES AND SHELLS. 14.1 INTRODUCTION. 14.2 DESCRIPTION OF BUCKLING BEHAVIOR. 14.3 UNSTIFFENED OR HEAVY-RING-STIFFENED CYLINDERS. 14.4 GENERAL INSTABILITY OF RING-STIFFENED CYLINDERS. 14.5 STRINGER- OR RING-AND-STRINGER-STIFFENED CYLINDER. 14.6 EFFECTS ON COLUMN 6 BUCKLING. 14.7 CYLINDERS SUBJECTED TO COMBINED LOADINGS. 14.8 STRENGTH AND BEHAVIOR OF DAMAGED AND REPAIRED TUBULAR COLUMNS. CHAPTER FIFTEEN MEMBERS WITH ELASTIC LATERAL RESTRAINTS. 15.1 INTRODUCTION. 15.2 BUCKLING OF THE COMPRESSION CHORD. 15.3 EFFECT OF SECONDARY FACTORS ON BUCKLING LOAD. 15.4 TOP-CHORD STRESSES DUE TO BENDING OF FLOOR BEAMS AND TO INITIAL CHORD ECCENTRICITIES. 15.5 DESIGN EXAMPLE. 15.6 PLATE GIRDER WITH ELASTICALLY BRACED COMPRESSION FLANGE. 15.7 GUYED TOWERS. CHAPTER SIXTEEN FRAME STABILITY. 16.1 INTRODUCTION. 16.2 METHODS OF ANALYSIS. 16.3 FRAME BEHAVIOR. 16.4 FRAME STABILITY ASSESSMENT USING SECOND-ORDER ANALYSIS. 16.5 OVERVIEW OF CURRENT CODE PROVISIONS. 16.6 STRUCTURAL INTEGRITY AND DISPROPORTIONATE COLLAPSE RESISTANCE. 16.7 CONCLUDING REMARKS. CHAPTER SEVENTEEN ARCHES. 17.1 INTRODUCTION. 17.2 IN-PLANE STABILITY OF ARCHES. 17.3 OUT-OF-PLANE STABILITY OF ARCHES. 17.4 BRACED ARCHES AND REQUIREMENTS FOR BRACING SYSTEMS. 17.5 ULTIMATE STRENGTH OF STEEL ARCH BRIDGES. CHAPTER EIGHTEEN DOUBLY CURVED SHELLS AND SHELL-LIKE STRUCTURES. 18.1 INTRODUCTION. 18.2 THE BASIC PROBLEM. 18.3 FINITE ELEMENT METHOD. 18.4 DESIGN CODES. 18.5 DESIGN AIDS. 18.6 RETICULATED SHELLS. 18.7 DESIGN TRENDS AND RESEARCH NEEDS. CHAPTER NINETEEN STABILITY ANALYSIS BY THE FINITE ELEMENT METHOD. 19.1 INTRODUCTION. 19.2 NONLINEAR ANALYSIS. 19.3 LINEARIZED EIGENVALUE BUCKLING ANALYSIS. APPENDIX A GENERAL REFERENCES ON STRUCTURAL STABILITY. APPENDIX B TECHNICAL MEMORANDUMS OF STRUCTURAL STABILITY RESEARCH COUNCIL. B.1 TECHNICAL MEMORANDUM NO.1: THE BASIC COLUMN FORMULA. B.2 TECHNICAL MEMORANDUM NO. 2: NOTES ON THE COMPRESSION TESTING OF METALS. B.3 TECHNICAL MEMORANDUM NO. 3: STUB-COLUMN TEST PROCEDURE. B.4 TECHNICAL MEMORANDUM NO. 4: PROCEDURE FOR TESTING CENTRALLY LOADED COLUMNS. B.5 TECHNICAL MEMORANDUM NO. 5: GENERAL PRINCIPLES FOR THE STABILITY DESIGN OF METAL STRUCTURES. B.6 TECHNICAL MEMORANDUM NO. 6: DETERMINATION OF RESIDUAL STRESSES. B.7 SSRC TECHNICAL MEMORANDUM NO. 7: TENSION TESTING. B.8 TECHNICAL MEMORANDUM NO. 8: STANDARD METHODS AND DEFINITIONS FOR TESTS FOR STATIC YIELD STRESS. B.9 TECHNICAL MEMORANDUM NO. 9: FLEXURAL TESTING. B.10 TECHNICAL MEMORANDUM NO. 10: STATISTICAL EVALUATION OF TEST DATA FOR LIMIT STATES DESIGN. APPENDIX C STRUCTURAL STABILITY RESEARCH COUNCIL.