Extending Kani Method for Analysis of Braced Frames

Kani method is a simple and robust tactic for analysis of building frames، which was proposed on 1950s and has been progressed substantially، so far. In contrast to the moment distribution approach، this technique can take into account the lateral transitions as well as nodal rotations of frames simultaneously. Based on this ability، Kani method is a suitable and cheap strategy for analysis of frame structure with the lateral shift. In this paper، Kani technique is extended to analyze braced frames to withstand lateral forces. The proposed formulation is utilized to solve some numerical problems. For the sake of the comparison، the results are also checked by matrix structural analysis method.