Seismic Design and Behavior of Steel Moment Frames

Steel moment frames have been regarded as the ideal structural system for seismic design, since are thought to have reasonable strength and stiffness and excellent inelastic behavior. The provide a very open structure which offers many architectural advantages. They have extremely good structural behavior and engineers still hold the system in high regard, but there have been some surprises in past performance resulting in increasing complexity in their design. This webinar will discuss the seismic behavior of steel moment frames and will review design provisions for achieving good performance of Ordinary, Intermediate or Special Steel Moment Resisting Frames.