Minimum Design Loads for Buildings and Other Structures
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Author(s): ASCE
Publisher: ASCE
ISBN: 0784406243
Format: softback
376pp
Price: $117.60
Review Date: 27 January 2003
Review: This new US Standard gives the minimum load requirements for the design of buildings and other structures that are subject to building code requirements. Loads and appropriate load combinations that have been developed to be used together are set forth for strength design and allowable stress design. For design strengths and allowable stress limits, design specifications for conventional structural materials used in buildings and modifications contained in this standard shall be followed. The Standard provides the current requirements for dead, live, flood, wind, snow, rain, ice and earthquake loads, and their combinations that are suitable for inclusion in building codes and other documents.