Published by ASCE Minimum Design Loads for Buildings and Other Structures, ASCE/SEI 7-10, is a complete revision of ASCE Standard 7-05.
Features:
* A complete update and reorganization of the wind load provisions, expanding them from one chapter into six to make them more understandable and easier to follow.
* Event wind maps with corresponding reductions in load factors, so that the loads are not affected.
* Updates to the seismic loads of ASCE 7-05, offering new risk-targeted seismic maps, snow load, live load and atmospheric icing provisions of ASCE 7-05.
* Requirements for general structural design.
* Means for determining dead, live, soil, flood, wind, snow, rain, atmospheric ice, and earthquake loads, and their combinations that suitable for inclusion in building codes and other documents.
* Detailed commentary in every chapter containing explanatory and supplementary information to assist users of ASCE 7-10.
Structural engineers, architects, and those engaged in preparing and administering local building codes will find the structural load requirements essential to their practice. (450 pages)
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