Utilisation of Test Data for Column Bases When Assessing Overall Frame Response: A Review

Abstract

Previous studies of the behaviour of steel column base connections are reviewed; attention is concentrated on the results from programmes of laboratory testing. Nominally pinned bases are shown to provide significant rotational restraint and to be capable of transferring quite large moments into the foundations. Ways of representing these effects in frame analysis are investigated and, based on sample studies, a recommendation is provided.

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