One-piece structural fuse
    12.
    发明授权

    公开(公告)号:US11203870B2

    公开(公告)日:2021-12-21

    申请号:US16888231

    申请日:2020-05-29

    Abstract: A one-piece structural fuse assembly is disclosed that is formed from a single piece of structural steel such as a beam. In embodiments, a first flange of the beam may form the fuse base, and a portion of the web of the beam may form the fuse plate. Additionally, a buckling restraint plate of the structural fuse assembly may be formed from a second flange of the beam, and the spacers of the structural fuse assembly may be formed from a portion of the web unused by the fuse plate. In examples, all of the components cut from the single piece of the beam are used in a single structural fuse assembly.

    Knife plate fastener
    16.
    发明授权

    公开(公告)号:US12276100B2

    公开(公告)日:2025-04-15

    申请号:US16923379

    申请日:2020-07-08

    Inventor: Steven E. Pryor

    Abstract: A connector referred to herein as a knife plate, and the structural connections formed using the knife plate. The knife plate may have a first portion configured to affix to a first structural member, such as a vertical column. The knife plate may have a second portion configured to fit within a slot formed in a second structural member, such as a horizontal beam. The second structural member may be pinned to the knife plate using one or more dowels fit through the second structural member and the knife plate.

    Pinned base connection for a structural member

    公开(公告)号:US11447970B2

    公开(公告)日:2022-09-20

    申请号:US16984325

    申请日:2020-08-04

    Inventor: Steven E. Pryor

    Abstract: A pinned base connector affixing a structural member to a foundation at one or more levels of a construction. The pinned base connector includes a baseplate affixed to the foundation. A column support plate is affixed to the baseplate via a pivot block. The pivot block is affixed to the baseplate to allow rotation of the pivot block relative to the baseplate about a first axis. The column support plate is affixed to the pivot block to allow rotation of the column support plate relative to the pivot block about a second axis orthogonal to the first. A column or other structural member may then be affixed to a surface of the column support plate.

    Moment frame including lateral bracing system and coped beam

    公开(公告)号:US11162260B2

    公开(公告)日:2021-11-02

    申请号:US16595940

    申请日:2019-10-08

    Inventor: Steven E. Pryor

    Abstract: A construction formed of column and a beam, where the beam has top and bottom flanges coupled to the column by a lateral bracing system, and a web between the top and bottom flanges. The lateral bracing system may include a column-mounted plate including a horizontal portion and a vertical portion, the vertical portion affixed to the column. The beam may be coped at top and bottom edges of the web to prevent binding of the beam flange with the column-mounted plate upon rotation of the beam relative to the column.

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