One Engineers Opinion

Abstract

The AISC publication Light and Heavy Industrial Buildings is currently being distributed to attendees of the ongoing AISC lecture series "Light and Heavy Industrial Buildings" and will be made available for general distribution after the completion of the lecture series. The purpose of this article is to clarify and elaborate on the material contained in Ref. 1 with respect to the determination of slenderness ratios of crane columns. The need for this discussion has been pointed out to the author by the many engineers who have already attended the lecture series. Since many of the readers of this article have not yet attended the lecture series and thus have not received Ref. 1, the material discussed here will be presented in an independent manner.