New Steel Specification Now Available For Free Download
June 21, 2005 From American Institute of Steel Construction, Inc.
The new AISC Specification for Structural Steel Buildings (ANSI/AISC 360-05), is now available for free download on the AISC web site by visiting www.aisc.org/2005spec.
This specification includes updated design provisions, and incorporates both allowable stress design (ASD) and load and resistance factor design methods (LRFD), and the design provisions for hollow structural sections and single angles. For this reason, this new specification supersedes the following five existing AISC specifications (and all previous versions of these Specifications):
- Load and Resistance Factor Design Specification for Structural Steel
Buildings dated December 27, 1999; - Specification for Structural Steel Buildings – Allowable Stress
Design and Plastic Design dated June 1, 1989, including Supplement
No. 1; - Specification for Allowable Stress Design of Single Angle Members
dated June 1, 1989; - Load and Resistance Factor Design Specification for Single-Angle Members
dated November 10, 2000; and - Load and Resistance Factor Design Specification for the Design of Steel
Hollow Structural Sections dated November 10, 2000.
The new specification has been approved by the AISC Committee on Specifications and is ANSI-accredited.
For more information contact:
Scott Melnick
VP of Communications
(312) 670-8314
melnick@aisc.org
American Institute of Steel Construction
The American Institute of Steel Construction, headquartered in Chicago, is a not-for-profit technical institute and trade association established in 1921 to serve the structural steel design community and construction industry. AISC’s mission is to make structural steel the material of choice by being the leader in structural steel-related technical and market-building activities, including: specification and code development, research, education, technical assistance, quality certification, standardization, and market development. AISC has a long tradition of service to the steel construction industry of providing timely and reliable information.
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