INTRODUCTION AND PHILOSOPHY.

Abstract

The Management Committee of the New Zealand National Society for Earthquake Engineering set up a study group of engineers to consider the state of the art in the design and construction of steel structures. The objectives of the project are: to update seismic design and construction procedures in structural steel to meet generally accepted requirements and those likely to arise in the next decade in New Zealand; to identify important problem areas that should be researched in New Zealand; to compile and publish a set of recommendations covering the design and construction of steel structures for earthquake resistance; and to identify and make available information on areas of engineering design in structural steel where the existing building code requirements, and particularly NZs 3404, are inadequate or do not even exist.