NOVEL DESIGN ALGORITHMS FOR K FACTOR CALCULATION AND BEAM-COLUMN SELECTION. DISCUSSION

A discussion of a paper with the aforementioned title by Agbayani, Jayachandran, and Sriram, published in this journal (Volume 119, Number 12, December 1993), is presented. The discussers focus on simpler and more accurate approximations to calculate the effective length factor K of a column. No closure is offered.