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7th International Conference on Computing in Civil and Building Engineering (ICCCBE-VII), Seoul, South Korea, 19 - 21 August 1997, pp.161-165, (Full Text)
During recent years, researchers has focused their attention on the actual behaviour of beam -to-column joints. In general, structural analysis of frames are performed either for rigid joints or pin-ended connections. Neverthless in practice, no joint is either fully rigid or actually pinned. A presumed rigid joint always allows for a relative rotation or presumed pin-ended connections are never proper hinges. Therefore all joints should be treated as semi-rigid. To meet semi-rigidly connected behaviour an emperical interaction equation, given in Turkish Standard TS 4561, is adopted into analysis by using C-m values which modifies the moment relating with effective buckling length of member, where C-m values are different for rigidly and semirigidly connected frame elements.