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WIDTH TO The local buckling classifications are The local buckling classifications for members have been separated Remains same as 2010 edition,
THICKNESS common for flexural and compression for flexure and compression. The classification for flexure remains except following changes:
RATIOS memebers. the same while compression members are now classified as either 1.Table. B4.1a.
slender or nonslender. The reference to Table B4.1 now reflects the Case 5: Figures for built up I-shaped
new Tables B4.1a for members subject to axial compression and sections and
B4.1b for members subject to flexure. channels have been added to this case
to
clarify that this case applies to these
sections.
Case 6: Boxes of uniform thickness
have been
removed from this case, they now
default to
Case 8.
2. Table. B4.1b.
Case 17: Boxes of uniform thickness
removed from
this case. Moved to Case 21.
MOMENT 10% Moment Redistribution allowed from A provision has been added that does not permit the reduction for The wording of this Section has
REDISTRIBUTION support to span for gravity loading except moment redistribution for members with Fy exceeding 65 ksi or for been revised for clarity. A
for cantilevers. design using partially restrained moment connections. reference to Chapter
C has been added for additional
requirements. Section B3.7 in the
2010
Specification, Moment
Redistribution in Beams, has been
incorporated into this
Section, and the wording for this
paragraph has been revised to
clarify that it is applicable only to
indeterminate beams carrying
gravity loads.
C1. STABILITY Stability requirements depends upon The content of this section has been reorganized to improve clarity. Consideration of stiffness
REQUIREMENTS following aspects: A numbered list is now provided for effects that should be reduction due to inelasticity has
1.Influence of second-order effects considered when analysing the stability of a structure. Added to this been expanded to include partial
(including P-delta effects) list includes stiffness reduction due to inelasticity and uncertainty in yielding due to residual stresses.
2.Flexural, shear and axial deformations, stiffness and strength.
3. Geometric imperfections, Removed from this list is member stiffness reduction due to residual
stresses.
 4. Member stiffness reduction due to
residual stresses on the stability of the
structure and its elements.
ADJUSTMENT UNCHANGED UNCHANGED Section C2.3(b) clarifies that the
TO STIFNESS values for τb determined in this
Section are for non-composite
members only. A reference to
Section I1.5 for calculation of τb for
composite members has been
added. In Equation C2-2b, Py, axial
yield stress, has been replaced by a
new variable, Pns, cross-section
compressive strength. Pns
differentiates between nonslender
and slender element sections, and
references Section E7 for
calculating slender-element
section compressive strength.
SHEAR LAG ORIGINAL For open cross sections the minimum shear lag factor, U, has been REMAINS UNCHANGED FROM
FACTORS FOR changed from equal to or greater than 0.60 to the ratio of the gross 2010
TENSION area of the connected elements to the member gross area. The
MEMBERS alternate lesser value of U, based on the effect of eccentricity, has
been removed.
SHEAR LAG ORIGINAL This table remains the same with the following exceptions: Case 2 This table remains the same with
FACTORS FOR has been expanded to include tension members that transmit the following exceptions: Plate
CONNECTIONS tensile load with longitudinal welds in combination with transverse members and tension members
TO TENSION welds. Two new figures have been added for Case 2 examples, one that transmit tensile load through
MEMBERS is a single angle the other is a tee shape. Case 8 is expanded to longitudinal welds only have been
(TABLE D 3.1) include double angles. In the 2005 Specification the single angle removed from Case 2. Case 4 has
condition with 2 or 3 fasteners per line in the direction of loading, been expanded to include angles,
with U = 0.60, has been changed to only 3 fasteners and directs the channels with welds at the heels,
user to Case 2 for less fasteners. tees and W-shapes with
connected elements; the equation
for calculating U and the example
figure have been updated to
address longitudinal welds of
unequal length; a footnote [a], has
been added on how to calculate l.
 Case 5 has been updated to clarify
that the gusset plate is connected
through slots in the HSS.
COMPRESSION NOT PRESENT A Selection Table for the Application of Chapter E Sections is NO CHANGES
MEMBERS introduced.
EFFECTIVE NO CHANGE NO CHANGE The effective length of a
LENGTH FACTOR compression member can also be
K determined by other rational
analysis process in place of using
the given approximate values of K.
COMPRESSION The formulas for determination of The formulas for determination of compression strength applies to NO CHANGES
STRENGTH compression strength applies to compact non-slender sections. The following changes has also been
and non-compact sections. introduced:

The “flexural buckling stress”,

Fcr, is now referred to as the “critical stress”. In Section E3(a) the alternate
slenderness check, Fe ≥
0.44Fy, is now shown as Fy/Fe ≤ 2.25 and in Section E3(b), Fe < 0.44Fy, is
now shown as Fy/Fe >
2.25. The elastic buckling stress, Fe, now references Appendix 7 instead of
Section C2.
COMPRESSIVE ORIGINAL This section now also applies to all doubly symmetric members This Section now clearly states that
STRENGTH FOR without slender elements when the torsional unbraced length it applies to all doubly
TORSIONAL AND exceeds the lateral unbraced length and for single angles with b/t > symmetric members without
FLEXURAL- 20. slender elements when the
TORSIONAL torsional unbraced length exceeds
BUCKLING OF the
MEMBERS lateral unbraced length and for
WITHOUT single angles with b /t > 0.71 E Fy .
SLENDER
ELEMENTS The sequence of the formulas for
strength determination have been
reorganized and some parameters
are redefined for clarity.
COMPRESSIVE ORIGINAL The modified column slenderness equation for built up shapes with NO SIGNIFICANT CHANGES APART
STRENGTH FOR intermediate connectors that are FROM ADDING SOME
BUILT-UP welded or connected with pretensioned bolts has been replaced CLARIFICATION AND USER NOTES.
MEMBERS with two new
equations as follows:
COMPRESSIVE ORIGINAL NO SIGNIFICANT CHANGES Slender Element Members
STRENGTH FOR Excluding Round HSS
MEMBERS WITH The title of this Section has been
STIFENED changed from Slender Unstiffened
ELEMENTS Elements, Qs, because stiffened
and unstiffened elements are now
treated the same. A new limiting
criteria of λr√( Fy /Fcr )has been
introduced to determine how the
user calculates be. Equation E7-3
introduces several new variables
used in calculating be: c1, c2 and
Fel. Table E7.1, Effective Width
Imperfection Adjustment Factor,
has been added to help determine
c1 and c2 based on shape.
Definitions of c1, c2, λr, λ and Fel
have been added to this Section.
Round HSS
Criteria in this Section determine
how to calculate Ae for round HSS,
which is used in the strength
equation, Equation E7-1.
LATERAL The content of this section has been reorganized into two new A requirement that warping be
TORSIONAL subsections. The use of the lateral torsional buckling modification prevented at the support has been
BUCKLING factor, Cb, in now limited to singly symmetric members in single added to the statement that Cb is
MODIFICATION curvature and all doubly symmetric members. In Equation F1-1 the permitted to be taken as 1.0 for
FACTOR, Cb cross-section monosymmetry parameter, Rm, has been removed cantilevers. The User Note has
along with the upper limit as follows: been expanded to clarify that the
commentary contains additional
equations for calculating Cb. The
equation is as follows:

The statement that Cb is permitted to be conservatively taken as 1.0

has been removed. The user note has been expanded to include the
value of Cb for equal end moments of the same sign and also refers
to the commentary for detailed analysis for singly symmetric
members.

For doubly symmetric members with no transverse loading between

brace points, Equation F1-1 reduces to 1.0 for the case of equal end
moments of opposite sign (uniform moment), 2.27 for the case of
equal end moments of the same sign (reverse curvature bending),
and to 1.67 when one end moment equals zero. For singly
symmetric members, a more detailed analysis for Cb is presented in
the Commentary.
LATERAL The formula to calculate Lr (Limiting Lateral Unbraced Length) has NO CHANGES
TORSIONAL been modified. As a result the resisting moment also changes.
BUCKLING FOR
DOUBLY
SYMMETRIC
COMPACT I-
SHAPED
MEMBERS
AND CHANNELS
BENT ABOUT
THEIR MAJOR
AXIS

LATERAL The web plastification factor, Rpc, is now based on the ratio of Iyc/Iy There is a change as follows:
TORSIONAL in Section F4.2c. A definition for variables, Iyc and hc, have been Tension Flange Yielding
BUCKLING FOR added to this section. This factor is used to determine the resisting The definition of Myt has been
OTHER I-SHAPED moment. added. Iyc/Iy has been added as a
MEMBERS WITH new criterion for determining Rpt,
COMPACT OR similar to the method used in
NONCOMPACT determining Rpc in Section F4.2.
WEBS BENT Equation F4-17, for determining
ABOUT THEIR Rpt for certain cases, has been
MAJOR AXIS added. The definition of Mp has
been added.
PROPORTIONS NO CHANGES FROM 2010
OF BEAMS AND
GIRDERS

DESIGN OF NO SIGNIFICANT CHANGES

MEMBERS FOR
COMBINED
FORCES:
MMBERS
SUBJECTED
SINGLE AXIS
FLEXURE AND
COMPRESSION