The Specification for Structural Steel Buildings (ANSI/AISC 360), hereafter referred
to as this Specification, shall apply to the design, fabrication, erection, and quality of
the structural steel system or systems with structural steel acting compositely with
reinforced concrete, where the steel elements are defined in Section 2.1 of the AISC
Code of Standard Practice for Steel Buildings and Bridges (ANSI/AISC 303), hereafter
referred to as the Code of Standard Practice.
This Specification includes the Symbols, Glossary, Abbreviations, Chapters A
through N, and Appendices 1 through 8. The Commentary to this Specification and
the User Notes interspersed throughout are not part of this Specification. The phrases
“is permitted” and “are permitted” in this document identify provisions that comply
with this Specification, but are not mandatory.
