Helpful Links for Determining Minimum Design Loads Hopefully these links can save you some time and help get you more accurate design loads. A quick heads-up – you will usually need to search the town/county/state to see if the Authority…
Category: Loading / Codes
IBC, ASCE7 and plenty of other codes provide minimum design loads for us to design to. We will discus some grey areas.
Seismic Design ASCE7 Part 1
ASCE 7 Seismic Design – Part 1 We are going to break down and review seismic design in regards to ASCE7-05. We are going to cover the basics and some commentary. Hopefully I will be able to elaborate sometime in…
Wind Load ASCE 7-05 VS ASCE 7-10
In comparing the 2010 edition to the 2005 edition of the ASCE 7 we see that there are significant changes to the layout, format, load factors used for wind and basic wind speed maps. These changes affect how you determine…
ASD Stress vs ASD Strength vs LRFD All are LSD
ASD Allowable Stress Design (1989 9th Edition AISC Manual) or Allowable Strength Design (2005 13th Edition AISC Manual). Both use service level loads and a safety factor to member strength. WSD Working Stress Design (not used in design anymore). Uses…