Design Guide 10
Erection E Bracing of Low-Rise Structural Steel Buildings
Second Edition
Design Guide10
Erection Bracing of Low-Rise Structural Steel Buildings
Second Edition
Michael A.West PEJames M. Fisher PE PhD
by
American Institute of Steel Construction
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Authors
Michael A. West PE FASCE FSEI is Vice President Emeritus of CSD Engineers. He is a member of the AISC Committeeon Manuals the AISC Committe on the Code of Standard Practice and AISC Committe on Specifications Task Committe 12 on Quality Control and Assurance. He is also the chairman of the AISC Certification Standards Committee.
tee on Specifications and is Task Committee 4 on Member Design. He also serves as chaiman of the task mittee developing James M. Fisher PhD PE Dist. M.ASCE is Vice President Emeritus of CSD Engineers. He is a member of the AISC Commit-the Seissic Provisions for Evaiarion cnd Rerrofit of Existing Structural Steel Buildings AISC 342.
Acknowledgments
The authors thank the American Institute of Steel Construction for funding the development of this document and for assistance in its preparation. Thanks also to all of the following reviewers and AISC staff members who made significant editorial improve-ments to the document. Their contributions are gratefully acknowledged.
Eric BolinCynthia Duncan Lou GeschwindnerWill Jacobs Larry KloiberLarry Kruth
Margaret MatthewVictor Shneur Jim MinkkinenLee Shoemaker John Rolfes
Preface
buildings. The second edition incorporates the 2016 AISC Specificrions and the 15th Edition of the AISC Steel Constraction This second edition of Design Guide 10 provides guidance for the design of temporary bracing for single-story structural steelManual as well as the 2019 ACI 318 Building Code Requiremenzs for Reinforced Concrete and Commenary. All design exam-ples have been updated to conform to the 2016 AISC Specification and the 2019 ACI 318 Barilding Code.
