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Second-Order
Effective Length
First-Order
Method
Analysis Method
Second-Order
First-Order
Member stiffness
Reduced EI & EA Nominal EI & EA Nominal EI & EA
in analysis
Notional lateral
load?
In some cases
In some cases
Yes; always
K=1
K =1
Direct Analysis Method will be the primary method of design for stability; it
will be presented in Chapter C while
the Effective Length Method and the
First-Order Analysis Method will be in
an appendix.
The B1 and B2 procedure for approximate second-order analysis will
be in a separate appendix, to emphasize that unlike the DAM, ELM and
FAM, which are methods of design
(defined as the combination of analysis and component strength checking),
the B1B2 procedure is simply an analysis technique, applicable wherever a
second-order analysis is required.
The focus on the DAM as the primary method of stability design in the
2010 Specification offered the opportunity to expand some of the provisions
beyond what is in the current Specification, both to improve clarity and to
address issues that have arisen from
use of the document. A preview of the
stability design section of the 2010
Specification can be found in a paper
by this author (Nair, 2009); the paper also outlines the rational basis of
the specification provisions and offers
suggestions for the modeling of structures for the application of the Direct
Analysis Method.
REFERENCES
AISC (1999), Load and Resistance Factor Design Specification for Structural Steel Buildings, American Institute of Steel
Construction, Inc., Chicago.
AISC
(2005),
Specification
for Structural Steel Buildings,
American Institute of Steel Construction, Inc., Chicago.
Nair (2009), A Model Specification for Stability Design by
Direct Analysis, Engineering
Journal, AISC, Vol. 46, No. 1,
Chicago.