SidePlate® steel frame connection technology has been independently BLAST & PROGRESSIVE COLLAPSE TESTED!

The SidePlate® moment connection was selected for blast and progressive collapse testing, as part of a first-ever joint civilian agency/Department of Defense Steel Frame Blast and Progressive Collapse Test Program, to investigate the behavior of conventional steel frame construction and its beam-to-column connections when subjected to high-level bomb blast and subsequent progressive collapse conditions.

SidePlate® steel frame connection system outperformed the post-Northridge ‘traditional’ WUF-B connection by:

  • 2- and 3-times the gravity load carrying capacity
  • 2-times the rotational ductility
  • 5-times the energy absorption

Progressive collapse test program results can be obtained by contacting the Interagency Security Council at http://www.oca.gsa.gov/mainpage.php.