American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE) ... 618 pages - Publisher: ASCE; 3rd edition (October, 2013) ... Language: English - ISBN-10: 078441291X - ISBN-13: 978-0784412916 ...
Minimum Design Loads for Buildings and Other Structures, ASCE/SEI 7-10,
provides requirements for general structural design and includes means
for determining dead, live, soil, flood, snow, rain, atmospheric ice,
earthquake, and wind loads, as well as their combinations, which are
suitable for inclusion in building codes and other documents. This
Standard, a revision of ASCE/SEI 7-05, offers a complete update and
reorganization of the wind load provisions, expanding them from one
chapter into six. The Standard contains new ultimate event wind maps
with corresponding reductions in load factors, so that the loads are not
affected, and updates the seismic loads with new risk-targeted seismic
maps. The snow, live, and atmospheric icing provisions are updated as
well. In addition, the Standard includes a detailed Commentary with
explanatory and supplementary information designed to assist building
code committees and regulatory authorities. The third printing of
Standard ASCE/SEI 7-10 incorporates errata and includes Supplement 1. In
addition, the seismic commentary has been expanded and completely
revised. Standard ASCE/SEI 7 is an integral part of building codes in
the United States. Many of the load provisions are substantially adopted
by reference in the International Building Code and the NFPA 5000
Building Construction and Safety Code. Structural engineers, architects,
and those engaged in preparing and administering local building codes
will find the structural load requirements essential to their practice.
Note: Purchasers of the first and second printings of this Standard 7-10
can download the errata and Supplement 1. The expanded seismic commentary can be downloaded from the ASCE Library (free with registration).