“…Since the 1994 Northridge earthquake, a significant amount of research has been conducted and papers have been published (Fema, 2000;Sherbourne and Bahaari, 2000;Sumner, 2003;Adany and Dunai, 2004;Maggie et al, 2005;Shi et al, 2007;2008;Yanga et al, 2009;Lamom et al, 2010;Ebrahimi et al, 2010), participating in positive design modifications to improve the behavior of beam-to-column steel connections. Sherbourne and Bahaari 2000developed three-dimensional finite element models to study the behavior of eight-bolt large capacity extended endplate steel connections.…”