The information on this page comes from a booklet entitled Connecting Steel Members A Teaching Guide written by Dr. Duane S. Ellifritt.

The Ellifritt Structure: Teaching Steel Design is an article from the Spring '97 volume of Foresight, The Newsletter for the College of Engineering and Applied Science.

Zalk Josephs Fabricators, a specialist in the complex fabrication of structural steel framing, modified Dr. Ellifrit's original design to produce the following structure.

Click on either the pictures or the links that follow to view a close up of the different connections.