SidePlate Applications

SidePlate™ is fully developed for both new and retrofit construction. Its unique trademark geometry, simple design configurations, increased connection stiffness, and proven construction methods that collectively characterize the attributes of the SidePlate connection technology are ideally suited to satisfy a wide variation and technically diverse set of design environments and construction applications as follows:

Design Environments:

• Explosive threat and mitigation of progressive floor collapse from structurally violent "missing column" and "missing beam" scenarios, either accidental or malevolent in origin
• Earthquakes of all magnitudes, including effects of near-field ground motion
• Extreme wind; including typhoon, hurricane and tornado

Design Configurations:

• SMRF, IMRF and OMRF moment frames for uniaxial frames
• Braced Dual Systems using SCBF with SMRF for uniaxial frames
• Braced Dual Systems using EBF with SMRF for uniaxial frames
• Biaxial Dual-Strong Axis applications for all cited uniaxial configurations

Construction Applications:

• Institutional:
  • Medical, such as essential Hospitals, Skilled Nursing Facilities, Senior Assisted Living and Medical Office Buildings
  • Government, such as County and Federal Courthouses; Embassies; Strategic Military Installations; International Airport Air Traffic Control Towers, Radar Towers, & TRACON Buildings; and Air Cargo Facilities,
  • Education, such as University and Community College Administrative, , instruction, auditorium, stadium, and laboratory Buildings
  • Bridges, such as suspension bridges, free span bridges and trestles
  
  
  
• Blast-Resistant Structures:
  • Strategically sensitive facilities of the federal government requiring mitigation of progressive floor collapse and other global bomb blast effects originating from terrorist or accidental bomb blasts in order to save lives, prevent injury and protect facilities. Public Owners of such buildings include GSA, FAA, Department of Defense, State Department, U.S. Navy and others. Applicable structures also include pre-engineered steel frame structures used to temporarily house personnel and/or warehouse government inventory.
  • Another growing need for SidePlate™ connection technology is with high-profile private business owners needing to protect valuable inventories and/or continue critical business operations.
  
  
  
• Commercial and Industrial:
  
  • High-rise, mid-rise and low-rise office, retail and mixed-use buildings
  • Large Concrete Tilt-Up Buildings, for use in tall one-story interior moment frames in large footprint warehouses, to eliminate interior braces that would otherwise limit the Owner's functional use of the building
  • Pre-Engineered Steel Frame Structures with varying-depth column and beam sections.
  • Petrochemical Structures, such as global pipe rack structures
  • Power Generation Structures, such as turbine buildings and electrical dead end bus structures
  
  
  
• Residential:
  • Custom Residences, such as those with limited shear walls, including support of the structure's second story over garage door openings