Joints in Steel Construction Moment Connections Published by: The Steel Construction Institute Silwood Park Ascot Berks SL5 7QN Tek: 01344 623345 Fax: 01344 622944 In association with: The British Constructional Steelwork Association Limited 4 Whitehall Court, Westminster, London SW1A 2ES‘© Crown Copyright 1995. Published by permission of the Controller of HMSO ‘Apart from any fair dealing for the purposes of research or private study or criticism or review, {as permitted under the Copyright Designs and Patents Act, 1988, this publication may not be reproduced, stored, or transmitted, in any form or by any means, without the prior permission in writing of the publishers, or in the case of reprographic reproduction only in accordance with terms of the licences issued by the UK Copyright Licensing Agency, or in accordance with the terms of licences issued by the appropriate Reproduction Rights Organisation outside the UK. Enquiries concerning reproduction outside the terms stated here should be sent to the publishers, ‘The Steel Construction Institute, at the address given on the title page. Although care has been to ensure, to the best of our knowledge, that all data and information contained herein are accurate to the extent that they relate to either matters of fact or accepted practice or matters of opinion at the time of publication, The Steel Construction Institute, The British Constructional Steelwork Association Limited, The Building Research Establishment, the authors and the reviewers assume no responsibility or any errorsin or misinterpretations of such data and/or information or any loss or damage arising from or related to their use. Publications supplied to Members of the Institute at a discount are not for resale by them. Publication Number: 207/95 ISBN 1 85942 018 4 British Library Cataloguing-in-Publication Data. A ccatalogue record for this book is available from the British Library. Reprinted October 1996, January 1997, March 1997 (with amendments) iil)ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS EEE publication has been prepared with guidance from the SCI/BCSA Connections Group consisting of the following members: Peter Allen* The British Constrctonal Steehwork Association Lt. David Brown* The Steel Construction Institute Mike Fewster* ‘Caunton Engineering Ltd. Peter Gannon* Watson Steel Ld. Dr Craig Gibbons* Ove Arup & Partners Eddie Hole British Steel Pl. Alastair Hughes* (Ove Arup & Partners ‘Abdul Malik The Steel Construction Institute (Technical Secretary) Dr David Moore Building Research Establishment Prof David Nethercot University of Nottingham Alan Pillinger* Bison Structures Ltd, ‘Alan Rathbone* ‘Computer Services Consultants (UK) Ltd. Graham Raven The Steel Construction Insitute John Rushton Peter Brett Associates Bernard Shuttleworth Consultant (Chairman) Richard Stainsby Neil RStainsby Ltd. Colin Smart British Stee! Pl. Eric Taylor Ove Arup & Partners * Editorial committee members ‘Valuable comments were received from: Dr D Anderson University of Warwick AN Beal Thomason Partnership BA Brown Scott Wilson & Kirkpatrick D Chapman Wesco! BD Cheal Consultant DrR Cunningham —— Cunningham Associates MJ Glover Ove Arup & Partners RCHairsine Graham Gamer & Partners K Leah Henry Brook & Co. Dr R. M. Lawson The Steel Construction Institute JH Mathys Waterman Partnership W Mitchell Billington Structures J 0 Surtees University of Leeds JC Taylor The Stee! Construction Institute E Treadaway Clark Nicholls & Marcel ‘The capacity tables were developed, and the book compiled and typeset by Richard Stainsby assisted by Neil Cruickshank. In addition to sponsorship by the Building Research Establisment, support on technical and commercial ‘matters was also received from: EV Girardier Steel Construction industry Federation (SCIF) RAC Latter British Stee! Pe. Dr G W Owens The Steel Construction Institute Dr D Tordoff The British Constructonal Steework Associaton Ltd. References to 8S 5950: Part 1 and Eurocode 3 have been made with permission of British Standards Institution, {BSI Customer Services, 389 Chiswick High Road, London, W4 4AL. ww