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Minimum Design Loads for Buildings and Other Structures provides requirements for general structural design and includes means for determining dead, live, soil, flood, wind, snow, rain, atmospheric ice, and earthquake 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. 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 this Standard an essential reference in their practice. Note: New orders are fulfilled from the second printing, which incorporates the errata to the first printing.

Minimum Design Loads for Buildings and Other Structures

Seismic Rehabilitation of Existing Buildings

Seismic resilient steel structures: A review of research, practice, challenges and opportunities

The aim of this work is to propose seismic reliability-based relationships between the strength reduction factors and the displacement ductility demand of nonlinear structural systems equipped with friction pendulum isolators (FPS) depending on the structural properties. The isolated structures are described by employing an equivalent 2dof model characterized by a perfectly elastoplastic rule to account for the inelastic response of the superstructure, whereas, the FPS behavior is described by a velocity-dependent model. An extensive parametric study is carried out encompassing a wide range of elastic and inelastic building properties, different seismic intensity levels and considering the friction coefficient as a random variable. Defined a set of natural seismic records and scaled to the seismic intensity corresponding to life safety limit state for L'Aquila site (Italy) according to NTC08, the inelastic characteristics of the superstructures are designed as the ratio between the average elastic responses and increasing strength reduction factors. Incremental dynamic analyses (IDAs) are developed to evaluate the seismic fragility curves of both the inelastic superstructure and the isolation level assuming different values of the corresponding limit states. Integrating the fragility curves with the seismic hazard curves related to L'Aquila site (Italy), the reliability curves of the equivalent inelastic base-isolated structural systems, with a design life of 50 years, are derived proposing seismic reliability-based regression expressions between the displacement ductility demand and the strength reduction factors for the superstructure as well as seismic reliability-based design (SRBD) abacuses useful to define the FPS properties.

Seismic reliability-based ductility demand evaluation for inelastic base-isolated structures with friction pendulum devices

Studying the seismic behavior of gate braced frames by incremental dynamic analysis (IDA)

Experimental study of rigid connection of drilled beam to CFT column with external stiffeners

In this paper, overstrength, ductility and response modification factors are calculated for frames braced with a different type of buckling restrained braces, called reduced yielding segment BRB (Buckling Restrained Brace) in which the length of its yielding part is reduced and placed in one end of the brace element in comparison with conventional BRBs. Forthermore,these factors are calculated for ordinary BRBF and the results are compared. In this regard incremental dynamic analysis (IDA) method is used for studying 17 records of the most known earthquakes happened in the world. To do that, the considered buildings have different stories and two bracing configurations: diagonal and inverted V chevron, the most ordinary configurations of BRBFs. Static pushover analysis, nonlinear incremental dynamic analysis and linear dynamic analysis have been performed using OpenSees software. Considering the results, it can be seen that, overstrength, ductility and response modification factors of this type of BRBF(Buckling Restrained Braced Frame) is greater than those of conventional types and it shows better seismic performance and also eliminates some of conventional BRBF

Response modification factor of the frames braced with reduced yielding segment BRB

Numerical simulation of failure in steel posttensioned connections under cyclic loading

Different kinds of bracing systems are used as the basic methods for providing lateral stiffness and strength in building frames. In recent years, tension-only bracing systems have been suggested b...

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Papers

Studying the seismic behavior of gate braced frames by incremental dynamic analysis (IDA)

Experimental study of rigid connection of drilled beam to CFT column with external stiffeners

Response modification factor of the frames braced with reduced yielding segment BRB

Numerical simulation of failure in steel posttensioned connections under cyclic loading

Theoretical assessment of the behavior of cable bracing system with central steel cylinder