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S16-14 Design of steel structures

10 Design lengths and slenderness ratios 44

10.1 Simple span flexural members 44
10.2 Continuous span flexural members 45
10.3 Members in compression 45
10.3.1 General 45
10.3.2 Failure mode involving bending in-plane 45
10.3.3 Failure mode involving buckling 45
10.4 Slenderness ratios 45
10.4.1 General 45
10.4.2 Maximum slenderness ratio 45

11 Width (or diameter)-to-thickness — Elements in compression 46

11.1 Classification of sections 46
11.2 Maximum width (or diameter)-to-thickness ratios of elements subject to compression 46
11.3 Width and thickness 47

12 Gross and net areas 47

12.1 Application 47
12.2 Gross area 47
12.3 Net area 47
12.3.1 General 47
12.3.2 Allowance for bolt holes 48
12.3.3 Effective net area — Shear lag 48
12.3.4 Angles 49
12.3.5 Plug or slot welds 49
12.4 Pin-connected members in tension 49
12.4.1 Effective net areas 49
12.4.2 Detail requirements 50

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13 Member and connection resistance 50
13.1 Resistance factors 50
13.2 Axial tension 50
13.3 Axial compression 51
13.3.1 Flexural buckling of doubly symmetric shapes 51
13.3.2 Flexural, torsional, or flexural-torsional buckling 51
13.3.3 Single-angle members in compression 52
13.3.4 Segmented members in compression 53
13.3.5 Members in compression subjected to elastic local buckling 54
13.4 Shear 54
13.4.1 Webs of flexural members with two flanges 54
13.4.2 Plastic analysis 56
13.4.3 Webs of flexural members not having two flanges 56
13.4.4 Pins 56
13.4.5 Gusset plates and coped beams 56
13.5 Bending — Laterally supported members 56
13.6 Bending — Laterally unsupported members 57
13.7 Lateral bracing for members in structures analyzed plastically 59
13.8 Axial compression and bending 60
13.8.1 General 60

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