US Patent Issued to SOUTH CHINA UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY on June 17 for "Method for designing strong column and weak beam of steel frame beam-box column under bidirectional earthquake actions" (Chinese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,333,223, issued on June 17, was assigned to SOUTH CHINA UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY (Guangzhou, China).

"Method for designing strong column and weak beam of steel frame beam-box column under bidirectional earthquake actions" was invented by Junxian Zhao (Guangzhou, China), Jiaxi Guo (Guangzhou, China) and Lijian Yan (Guangzhou, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention provides a method for designing a strong column and weak beam of a steel frame beam-box column under bidirectional earthquake actions, including the following steps: designing an initial frame; defining important beam-column joints and important sections at a...