Design for Fire Safety
For buildings with structural lumber or timber framing, fire protection of the occupants and of the property itself can be enhanced by taking advantage of the fireendurance properties of wood in …
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Strength Design for Flexure
Article 9.44 summarizes the basic assumptions for strength design of flexural members. The following formulas are derived from those assumptions. The area As of tension reinforcement in a reinforced-concrete …
Mix Design
Concrete mixes are designed with the aid of test records obtained from field experience with the materials to be used. When field test results are not available, other means of mix …
Design Aids and References
Design procedures using either the ASD or the LRFD specifications require the use of many numerical values which represent the section properties of the individual shapes or plates under consideration. Several …
Earthquake Loads
The seismic loads on the structure during an earthquake result from inertia forces which were created by ground accelerations. The magnitude of these loads is a function of the following factors: …