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

Recent advances in nonlinear passive vibration isolators

Research developments in vibration control of structures using passive tuned mass dampers

The design structure matrix (DSM), also called the dependency structure matrix, has become a widely used modeling framework across many areas of research and practice. The DSM brings advantages of simplicity and conciseness in representation, and, supported by appropriate analysis, can also highlight important patterns in system architectures (design structures), such as modules and cycles. A literature review in 2001 cited about 100 DSM papers; there have been over 1000 since. Thus, it is useful to survey the latest DSM extensions and innovations to help consolidate progress and identify promising opportunities for further research. This paper surveys the DSM literature, primarily from archival journals, and organizes the developments pertaining to building, displaying, analyzing, and applying product, process, and organization DSMs. It then addresses DSM applications in other domains, as well as recent developments with domain mapping matrices (DMMs) and multidomain matrices (MDMs). Overall, DSM methods are becoming more mainstream, especially in the areas of engineering design, engineering management, management/organization science, and systems engineering. Despite significant research contributions, however, DSM awareness seems to be spreading more slowly in the realm of project management.

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Design Structure Matrix Extensions and Innovations: A Survey and New Opportunities

http://www.ikb.poznan.pl/roman.lewandowski/Passive/jabartosz.pdf

Identification of the parameters of the Kelvin-Voigt and the Maxwell fractional models, used to modeling of viscoelastic dampers

Influence of isolator characteristics on the response of base-isolated structures

In case of blast loading on structures, analysis is carried out in two stages, first the blast loading on a particular structure is determined and second, an evaluation is made for the response of the structure to this loading. In this paper, a review of the first part is presented which includes various empirical relations available for computation of blast load in the form of pressure-time function resulting from the explosion in the air. Different empirical techniques available in the form of charts and equations are reviewed first and then the various blast wave parameters are computed using these equations. This paper is providing various blast computation equations, charts, and references in a concise form at a single place and to serve as base for researchers and designers to understand, compare, and then compute the blast wave parameters. Recommendations are presented to choose the best suitable technique from the available methods to compute the pressure-time function for obtaining structural response.Defence Science Journal, 2012, 62(5), pp.300-306, DOI:http://dx.doi.org/10.14429/dsj.62.1149

http://www.publications.drdo.gov.in/ojs/index.php/dsj/article/download/1149/1343

An Abridged Review of Blast Wave Parameters

Seismic response of base-isolated structures during impact with adjacent structures

The strategy for dealing with the blast-induced threats against a structure requires attention from planning and design stages, as introducing or altering various blast response mitigation strategies becomes either difficult or impossible later on. Blast response mitigation strategies can be incorporated in the structural design at concept stage, leading to a well-designed and -constructed structure that can exhibit improved blast resistance and at the same time maintain its architecturally appealing appearance. This requires knowledge of (1) intelligent strategies in the form of blast source isolation strategies or using advanced engineered materials, (2) material behavior under such loading, and (3) postexplosion functioning of the structure and its elements. In this paper, various strategies for blast mitigation are reviewed and discussed with an emphasis on presenting a comprehensive assessment of blast response mitigation technologies beginning from the necessary discussion on fundamental asp...

https://web.iitd.ac.in/~matsagar/COEP_Workshop_Blast_Resistant_Design_of_Structures.pdf

Vasant Matsagar

Papers

Research developments in vibration control of structures using passive tuned mass dampers

Influence of isolator characteristics on the response of base-isolated structures

An Abridged Review of Blast Wave Parameters

Seismic response of base-isolated structures during impact with adjacent structures

Blast-Resistant Design of Structures