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Simplified building design for wind and earthquake forces
- Title
- Simplified building design for wind and earthquake forces / James Ambrose, Dimitry Vergun.
- Author
- Ambrose, James E.
- Publication
- New York : J. Wiley, 1995.
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- Additional Authors
- Vergun, Dimitry, 1933-
- Description
- x, 355 pages : illustrations; 27 cm.
- Series Statement
- Parker-Ambrose series of simplified design guides
- Uniform Title
- Parker-Ambrose series of simplified design guides.
- Subjects
- Note
- "A Wiley-Interscience Publication."
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Contents
- Pt. I. General Considerations. 1. Wind Effects on Buildings. 2. Earthquake Effects on Buildings. 3. Resistance of Buildings to Lateral Forces. 4. Building Planning for Lateral Resistance -- Pt. II. Lateral Resistive Elements and Systems. 5. Lateral-Load-Resisting Systems. 6. Elements of Lateral Resistive Systems. 7. Special Problems for Lateral Resistive Systems. 8. Site and Foundation Concerns -- Pt. III. Design Examples. 9. Design Process and Methods. 10. Shear Wall Systems. 11. Truss Systems. 12. Moment-Resistive Frames -- Pt. IV. Strengthening of Building Structures. 13. Need for Strengthening. 14. Strengthening of Older Buildings -- Appendix A: Dynamic Effects -- Appendix B: Excerpts from the 1994 UBC -- Appendix C: Data for Masonry Structures -- Appendix D: Weight of Building Construction.
- ISBN
- 0471309583 (cloth)
- LCCN
- 94030569
- OCLC
- 31078674
- ocm31078674
- Owning Institutions
- Columbia University Libraries