“…Several investigators acknowledged and demonstrated that traditional assumptions of connections being either fixed or pinned can lead to significant errors in the analysis of static (Lee and Moon, 2002) and dynamic response (da Silva et al., 2008; Galvão et al., 2010; Tuürker et al., 2009; Wong et al., 1995), design and sizing of members (Lee and Moon, 2002), as well as design against progressive collapse (Liu et al., 2010). The findings obtained in Section 4.4 of this study also support these earlier studies that neither the fixed nor the pinned connections are acceptable to represent the two‐bolt connection used in the steel frame studied herein.…”