ANSI/AISC 360-05 Specification for Structural Steel Buildings

American Institute of Steel Construction (AISC). Chicago, Illinois. 2005. 519p. This Specification has been based upon past successful usage, advances in the state of knowledge, and changes in design practice. The 2005 American Institute of Steel Construction’s Specification for Structural Steel Buildings for the first time provides an integrated treatment of Allowable Stress Design (ASD) and Load and Resistance Factor Design (LRFD), and thus combines and replaces earlier Specifications that treated the two design methods separately. As indicated in Chapter B of the Specification, designs can be made according to either ASD or LRFD provisions.