Portals Frames

Lehigh University

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Fritz Laboratory Reports Civil and Environmental Engineering

1950

Portal frame tests proposal

L. S. Beedle

E. R. Johnston Jr.

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LEHIGH UNIVERSITY

DEPARTMENT OF CIVIL ENGINEERING

FRITZ ENGINEERING LABORATORY

BETHLEHEM. PA.

August 25, 1950

File No. 205D

To: Members, Lehigh Project Subcommittee

Structural Steel Comrni ttee

Welding Resear9n Council

PORTAL FRA~m TESTS

'1entlemen:

PHONE

BETHLEHEM 7·5071

FRITZ E. L. OFFICE EXT. 258

HYDRAULICS LAB. EXT. 279

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It is the purpose of this letter to present to the

Lehigh Project Subcommittee recommendations for certain frame

tests to be conducted as a part of the current five-year investigation

on the "Ultimate Strength of Welded Continuous

Frames and Their Components"*

I1K:TRODUCTIOThT

Sufficient informa tion has been obtained from phases of

the investigation already completed or nearing completion to

permit the testing of complete welded frames. A test program

of frame componeDts (beam, columns, and connections) has been

partially completed; two reports for publication are to be

finished during the next two months. Full scale and miniature

portal frames tested at Cambridge University, England, have

confirmed the accuracy of methods for the prediction of the

ultimate carrying capacity of frames for the particular sections...