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Column, beam and cross-bracing frame structure and methodology. The column features an assembly of plural elongate angle-iron-like components held apart by spacers which establish laterally facing recesses between spaced, confronting legs for receiving the modified, inserted ends of the central webs

Column, beam and cross-bracing frame structure and methodology. The column features an assembly of plural elongate angle-iron-like components held apart by spacers which establish laterally facing recesses between spaced, confronting legs for receiving the modified, inserted ends of the central webs in beams, and the ends of cross braces. Regions of end-to-end, vertically-stacked joinder between two columns take the forms of compact, friction-bound splices created through and with the inserted ends of beams' central webs. Columns in a frame can respond to severe loads with a certain amount of beneficial individual load-handling promoted and provided by the plural angle-iron-like components, and with modest, reversible frictionally resisted energy-dissipating longitudinal motions relative to one another. Such loading is also resisted by reversible, frictional relative motion in the splices between beams and columns. Similar friction connections are provided between cross-connected beams.

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1. A structural column/beam connection comprising a pair of end-to-end vertically stacked, elongate columns each including plural, adjacent, angle-iron-like components each having a pair of angularly joined, elongate legs, with each leg in each said component in each column facing and spaced from a

1. A structural column/beam connection comprising a pair of end-to-end vertically stacked, elongate columns each including plural, adjacent, angle-iron-like components each having a pair of angularly joined, elongate legs, with each leg in each said component in each column facing and spaced from a leg in an immediately adjacent component in the same column, and with the legs in each column being aligned with the legs in the other column, in each said column, spacer structure interposed and secured to the column's said angle-iron-like components intermediate the opposite ends of said components, and in a manner positioning the components, along the length of the associated column, with each component's legs spaced from, confronting, and generally paralleling a leg in a next-adjacent component in the column, and wherein the space between confronting legs provides clearance for the receipt of the end of the central web in a beam, an elongate beam positioned longitudinally orthogonally relative to said stacked columns, possessing a central web having an end received within the spaces between aligned pairs of legs in a pair of aligned angle-iron-like components in each of the two columns, with said central web's end bridging vertically across the region of end-to-end proximity of the two columns, and structure anchoring said central web's end to said aligned pairs of legs in said aligned pairs of angle-iron-like components, and cooperating with said central web's said end to create a splice between said columns. 2. A column/beam interconnection in a building frame comprising a pair of elongate, upright, vertically stacked and aligned, next-adjacent structural columns including a lower column and an upper column, with each column possessing an end which confronts an end in the other column, and with each column being formed by plural, adjacent, elongate, angle-iron-like components each having a pair of angularly-joined elongate legs, within each column, spacer structure interposed and secured to said angle-iron-like components intermediate the opposite ends of said components, and in a manner positioning said components, along the length of the column, with each of the component's respective legs spaced from, confronting, and generally paralleling a leg in an adjacent component, to define a space between confronting legs adapted for the receipt of the central web in a beam to be employed in the interconnection, an elongate, generally horizontal beam including a generally upright, planar central web with an end which, with respect to each of said aligned columns, extends into said defined space which exists in each of said columns between two confronting legs in a selected pair of adjacent angle-iron-like components in a column, with said web end bridging vertically across the location where said column ends confront one another, and structure anchoring said central web's said end to each of said two confronting legs in the selected pair of adjacent angle-iron-like components in said columns, thus to create a direct, load-bearing splice between the columns. 3. The column of claim 2 which has a long axis, and which, as viewed along said long axis, has a generally cross-shaped, transverse, cross-sectional outline. 4. The column of claim 2 which has a long axis, and which, as viewed along said long axis, has a generally cross-shaped, transverse, cross-sectional outline defined by said legs, which legs lie in planes that extend generally radially outwardly from the column's long axis. 5. The column of claim 2 which has a long axis, and which, as viewed along said long axis, has a generally star-like radial appearance defined by said flanges.