Following is a brief overview of the governing code documents for seismic design of steel moment frames, intended to provide a brief, hierarchical, at-a-glance directory.

2006 International Building Code (IBC)

• Chapter 16—Structural Design
• Chapter 22—Steel

2005 American Society of Civil Engineers/Structural Engineers Institute (ASCE/SEI) 7: Minimum Design Loads for Buildings and Other Structures including Supplement Number 1

• Chapter 11—Seismic Design Criteria
• Chapter 12—Seismic Requirements for Building Structures

2005 American National Standards Institute/American Institute of Steel Construction (ANSI/AISC) 360: Specification for Structural Steel Buildings

2005 American National Standards Institute/American Institute of Steel Construction (ANSI/AISC) 341: Seismic Provisions for Structural Steel Buildings

• Section 9—Special Moment Frames (SMF)
• Section 10—Intermediate Moment Frames (IMF)
• Section 11—Ordinary Moment Frames (OMF)

2005 American National Standards Institute/American Institute of Steel Construction (ANSI/AISC) 358: Prequalified Connections for Special and Intermediate Steel Moment Frames for Seismic Applications including Supplement Number 1