ABSTRACT
A Word of Warning: The Specifications are subject to continuous scrutiny and updating by RCSC and AISC. While they are not legal documents in and of themselves, they become legal documents when incorporated in municipal building codes and in contract documents. Generally, designers and users must follow these specifications if involved with steel structures such as buildings or bridges. If you deal with such structures, you should obtain the latest version of these documents from AISC and use them, rather than this chapter, to direct your activities. Hopefully, the following discussion will be helpful in imparting an understanding and use of the Specifications; but it should not be used as a substitute for the latest version of the documents on which this chapter is based. (Information on how to obtain these documents is included in the references at the end of the chapter.)
This chapter alone may be helpful in the design of nonstructural steel joints and in the development of similar specifications for other applications.
