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  Wind and Earthquake Resistant Buildings: Structural Analysis and Design
  Wind and Earthquake Resistant Buildings: Structural Analysis and Design
Wind and Earthquake Resistant Buildings: Structural Analysis and Design

 
A resource that addresses much of the history and intent of major design provisions in of the building codes in a reader-friendly manner. Dr. Taranath explains critical code specific items and structural concepts, includes real world examples with explanations, and provides a fundamental understanding of the behavior of steel, concrete and composite building structures. Contents cover wind loads, seismic design, steel buildings, concrete buildings, composite buildings, seismic rehabilitation of existing buildings, gravity systems and more. ACI 318-02, AISC 341-02, ASCE 7-02, 2003 IBC and 1997 UBC are referenced.

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Website Price $132.05

Author: Bungale S Taranath PhD SE
Format: Softcover
Copyright: 2004
Pages: 904
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Following a brief overview of the battering forces of nature, Wind and Earthquake Resistant Buildings: Structural Analysis and Design provides structural engineers with a uniquely practical perspective on all aspects of steel, concrete and composite use in the design of buildings, including wind effects and seismic design.

The book features ASCE 7-02, Minimum Design Loads for Buildings and Other Structures, the provisions of which form the basis of design specifications contained in the 2003 International Building Code. This model code is expected to form the basis for most earthquake and wind resistant design in the United States, and in other nations that base their codes on US practices.

The provides an insight into why and how specific system choices are made by including dozens of case studies of buildings throughout the world, some of which Dr Taranath designed himself.

Highlights Include:

  • The latest building codes, including ASCE 7-02, 2003 International Building Code, AISC 341-02, ACI 318-02, 1997 Uniform Building Code, and 1995 NBCC.
  • Recent developments in seismic retrofit design of buildings using FEMA 356 and FEMA 350 series.
  • Earthquake Hazard Mitigation Technologies, including seismic base isolation and passive energy dissipation.
  • Seismic behavior and earthquake-resistant design provisions for different structural systems using steel, reinforced concrete and a combination of the two.
  • Gravity-based steel and concrete systems, including prestressed concrete design.
  • Seismic analysis and design of nonstructural elements.
  • The effect of wind and seismic forces and innovative, state-of-the-art approaches for establishing cost-efficient designs.
Using numerous examples and illustrations, Dr Taranath demonstrates how to execute virtually all the recent methods and ideas for creating cost-efficient designs. Comprehensive, systematic, and thoroughly graspable, this fundamental resource offers engineers at all levels of experience the tools they need to formulate structural systems that address the specific needs of project clients.

About the Author
Bungale S Taranath, PhD, SE, has been with the structural consulting firm of John A Martin and Associates, Inc, Los Angeles, California, for the past 16 years. He has extensive experience in the design of steel, concrete and composite tall buildings and has served as principal-in-charge on many notable high-rise buildings. He has held positions as vice president and principal-in-charge with two consulting firms in Houston, Texas, and as a senior project manager with the Chicago office of Skidmore, Owings and Merrill, where his fascination with tall buildings developed under the tutelage of the late Dr Fazlur R Kahn. He has conducted research into the behavior of tall building shear wall structures and is the author of numerous published papers on torsion analysis and multistory construction projects. Dr Taranath has conducted seminars on tall building design in the US, China, Hong Kong, Singapore, Mexico, India and England. He was awarded a bronze medal in recognition of a paper presented in London, when he was a Fellow of the Institution of Structural Engineers, London, England. He has previously published two other books about tall buildings, the most popular of which was translated into Chinese and widely accepted in Asia.

 

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