also check Professor Ben Schafer's site at John Hopkins University.
http://www.ce.jhu.edu/bschafer/cufsm/
As I understand it, he is the one promoting the direct strength method in
preference to the effective width methods.
Regards
Conrad Harrison
B.Tech (mfg & mech), MIIE, gradTIEAust
mailto:sch.tectonic@bigpond.com
Adelaide
South Australia
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