The reports listed below are currently available from the SAC Steel Project in downloadable electronic formats.   These documents are PDF's, an Adobe proprietary format that is becoming very common.  If you haven't downloaded the Adobe Acrobat plug-in, please do so, at the Acrobat Home Page.  This plug-in will allow your browser (Netscape Navigator and Communicator, Microsoft Internet Explorer, etc.) view the documents like any other web page.  Or, you can save the documents by clicking on the links below,  saving the PDF's ("right-clicking" in Win 95/NT) and viewing it with Adobe Acrobat Reader.  As always, all these documents are available in hard copy.  For more information, please return to our Reference Library. 
 

• SAC Background Document 97/02 :  "Protocol for Fabrication, Inspection, Testing, and Documentation of Beam-Column Connection Tests and Other Experimental Specimens".   Prepared by Peter Clark with contributions from Karl Frank, Helmut Krawinkler, and Robert Shaw

• SAC Interim Guidelines Advisory No. 2 (FEMA-267B): "Evaluation, Repair, Modification and Design of Welded Steel Moment Frame Structures"

• SAC Background Document 98/01 :  "Strength and Ductility of FR Welded-Bolted Connections" by Sherif El-Tawil, Tameka Mikesell, Egill Vidarsson, and Sashi K. Kunnath

Additionally, the SAC Updates available below are newsletter-type documents that contain current information about the SAC Steel Project. To be added to the mailing list for new Updates, or to receive hard-copies of past Updates, contact the SAC Technical Office by email, fax or phone. 

• SAC Update No. 3  April 1998 (PDF, 544 Kb)
• SAC Update No. 2  February 1997 (PDF, 93 Kb)
• SAC Update No. 1  March 1996 (PDF, 27 Kb)

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