It is normal practice for civil engineers designing steel beams and columns to assume that the joints are free to rotate, unless they are especially designed as "fixed" joints, in which case it is assumed rotation is completely prevented. In actual fact, however, the joints are semi-rigid. Some rotation does take place, but this rotation is resisted by the joint and creates bending moment at the ends of the beam. The relationship between the joint rotation and bending moment cannot, as yet, be determined theoretically.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:LACETR/oai:collectionscanada.gc.ca:QMM.113411 |
| Date | January 1961 |
| Creators | Howe, John. W. |
| Contributors | De Stein, J. (Supervisor) |
| Publisher | McGill University |
| Source Sets | Library and Archives Canada ETDs Repository / Centre d'archives des thèses électroniques de Bibliothèque et Archives Canada |
| Language | English |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | Electronic Thesis or Dissertation |
| Format | application/pdf |
| Coverage | Master of Engineering. (Department of Engineering.) |
| Rights | All items in eScholarship@McGill are protected by copyright with all rights reserved unless otherwise indicated. |
| Relation | alephsysno: NNNNNNNNN, Theses scanned by McGill Library. |
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