📋 Case Study
High-Rise Office Tower in Seattle – SMF Beam-Column Connections
Ensuring ductile behavior under MCE-level ground motion while meeting architectural clear height constraints
🏗️ Project Overview
32-story steel-framed office tower with seismic design category D
🎯 Challenge
Ensuring ductile behavior under MCE-level ground motion while meeting architectural clear height constraints
🔧 Design Approach
Reduced Beam Section (RBS) connections with prequalified details per AISC 358, supplemented by full-scale cyclic testing validation