AISC Seismic Design Manual, Third Edition

The new Seismic Design Manual offers hundreds of pages of comprehensive design examples, including connections updated for the AISC Seismic Provisions.

This new edition includes:

• Side-by-side LRFD and ASD design methodologies for design examples
  
• New chapter on analysis
• More thorough examples on connection design, including panel zone detailing and brace-to-beam/column connection design options
• Extended discussion and more economical design methodology for collector elements
• New examples for buckling-restrained braced frames
• New chapters on composite moment frames and composite braced frames

Also included are two AISC seismic-related standards:

•  AISC Seismic Provisions for Structural Steel Buildings (ANSI/AISC 341-10)
•  AISC Prequalified Connections for Special and Intermediate Steel Moment Frames for Seismic Applications