"Resilient Steel Moment Frames"
Join your fellow SEAW members for this webinar!
Date: Tuesday, September 28, 2021
Time: 4:00PM - 5:00PM PST
Location: GoToWebinar
Cost: SEAW Members and Students - FREE
Non-Members - $15
PDH: 1 Hour PDH certificates will be emailed to attendees after the webinar.
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Presentation:
Most steel special moment frames are designed to experience beam yielding during a severe earthquake. This approach is economical, but the functional recovery of buildings with distributed beam damage will be poor because the beams will require repair/replacement. DuraFuse Frames move yielding out of the beams and into bolted
bottom flange plates that are easier to replace after a severe earthquake. In addition to improved resilience, DuraFuse Frames reduces initial costs through simple fabrication, field-bolted erection, reduced connection and column weights, and reduced beam lateral bracing. The presentation will provide an overview of DuraFuse Frames, a review of code prequalifcation, and an explanation of the design procedures.
Presenter: Ryan McKinney, PE, SE
Ryan McKinney is the Director of Engineering at DuraFuse Frames. Ryan received his B.S. and M.S. in Civil Engineering from the University of Washington. Ryan is a licensed structural engineer in Washington and California and has spent the majority of his career as a consulting structural engineer at several firms in the Seattle area.
