Effect of beam-column joint stiffness on the design of beams

The infrastructure should be design in such a way that ensures safe, serviceable, durable and economic construction. For the beam design, the joints between beam and column is traditionally considered a \nrigid connection which actually not fully rigid and therefore accounted an extra moment leading to structural over-design and subsequently higher cost of beam construction. This paper proposed a \ntheoretical model for moment and deflection considering the actual stiffness of beam-column joint rather than traditional concept of rigid connection. A concentrated moving load is applied on the beam \nwith three different support conditions such as fixed both end, simply supported and propped cantilever. This proposed model is then verified theoretically considering known boundary conditions. \nResults showed that the proposed theoretical model for moment and deflection of beam perfectly captured the existing beam equations with that specific support conditions and the cost of the beam \nconstruction can be reduced due to considering the actual beam-column joint stiffness.