Abstract—Steel ordinary moment frames (OMF) are often
used in building construction as a seismic force-resisting
system. Among three types of steel moment frames specified in
seismic design provisions such as ordinary (OMF),
intermediate (IMF), and special moment frames (SMF), design
and detailing requirements specified for steel OMFs are the
least stringent. To evaluate the seismic performance of steel
OMFs, OMFs were designed according to current seismic
design and detailing provisions considering different
combinations of gravity, seismic, wind loads, as well as wind
drift limits. FEMA-P695 was used for seismic performance
evaluation. Then, permissible heights for steel OMFs are
proposed based on the results of seismic performance
evaluation.
Index Terms—Steel moment frames, seismic performance,
design provision, seismic force-resisting system.
Sang Whan Han is with Department of Architectural Engineering,
Hanyang University, Seoul, Korea (e-mail: swhan82@gmail.com)
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Cite: Sang Whan Han, "Permissible Heights Proposed for Steel Ordinary Moment
Frames," International Journal of Engineering and Technology vol. 10, no. 6, pp. 447-451, 2018.
