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Fall 2023

Duong, Eric

Steel fabricators and connection designers in the building construction industry often rely on traditional connection design methods, which involve using connection design software or spreadsheets to simulate and design connections with the goal of minimizing costs associated with fabrication and...

Spring 2016

Ahmad, Muhammad

are provided in the joint. However, these stiffeners may add unnecessary costs to the joint and elimination of these stiffeners will lead to more economical solution. Behaviour of the unstiffened member subjected to the torsional loading has been explored in this report. Parametric numerical analysis

Fall 2019

Unsworth, Daniel

Residual stresses can have a significant impact on the stability of structural members. In the case of I-section beam elements, such stresses can impact lateral--torsional buckling (LTB) capacity, particularly in the inelastic range. I-sections are typically fabricated by either rolling as a single

Spring 2014

Thomas, Kristin S

Current design procedures for extended shear tab connections tend to be conservative and often do not include considerations for axial load. To address these problems, an investigation into the behaviour of extended shear tabs was completed by testing 23 full-scale specimens. Both unstiffened and...

Fall 2020

Zain, Akram M

safety helped in growing the interest of designers and contractors toward modularization. Although there is wide agreement on modularization benefits to the construction industry, the transition to these new building techniques requires research and understanding of the structural behaviour of modular

innovative modular steel lateral load resisting system (LLRS) that can be integrated with the modular system to help in improving construction efficiency, while offering a safe and satisfactory structural performance. A new modular steel system for multi-storey buildings is proposed in this research project

. Two types of modules, gravity and braced, were introduced to carry gravity and lateral loads, respectively. The members and connections were selected based on availability in the market, structural performance, transportation constraints, and fabrication and erection benefits. The proposed braced

Fall 2019

Manarin, Michael

Lateral–torsional buckling (LTB) is a failure mode that is associated with simultaneous vertical displacement and twisting of a beam when subjected to flexural loading. LTB behaviour is generally well understood for I shaped steel beams; however, the LTB behaviour of T shaped steel beams is not...

Spring 2021

Chin, Ian Chong-Xian

Embedded plates are commonly used to facilitate connecting structural steel members to reinforced concrete building elements such as walls and columns. Due to a lack of readily available industry-wide standard embedded plate designs, embedded plates are often custom designed for each project. This

Fall 2013

Moghimi, Hassan

The objective of this research is to develop design methods for steel plate shear wall in low and moderate seismic regions, and to examine its performance under accidental blast. Different practical details are investigated to reduce the force demands on the boundary frame of the wall system and...

Fall 2015

Johnston, Graeme G

Current design procedures for double-coped beams tend to be overly conservative and do not include considerations for axial load. The reduced strength and stability of the coped region increase the susceptibility of the connection to a local failure, and the complexity of the connection behaviour...