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Stephen Some universities do this, but it is not common. Mostly Universities that are affiliated with a designated Research Center, e.g. the Mid-America Earthquake Center, the Pacific Earthquake Engineering Research Center, etc., publish light journals summarizing their research, that are readily accessible. ...

My response is as a practitioner who has been active in code/standards development for 40 years, first as a member of the SEAOC Seismology Committee, then as a member of the BSSC Provisions Update Committee, ASCE 7 Committee and AISC and AWS specifications committees. My focus if primarily on building ...

Ed The intent of the requirement to detail as per "special reinforced concrete moment frames" is to assure that appropriate confinement through ties and cross ties, and reinforcement splices (if any) are provided. It is not intended to force you to construct grade beams. One concern I might have about ...

A good question. As background Strength design (LRFD) was developed in the 1960s and 70s as an alternative to ASD which would provide both a more rational basis for design, and also more uniform reliability of structures. When it was developed, the load and resistance factors used in the Strength ...

Please see the ASCE 7 Wind Committee's response below: "It is our understanding that ASCE's Committee on Solar PV Structures has discussed this issue related to the forthcoming Manual of Practice publication. When the geometry is outside of the bounds of the ASCE 7 provisions, the provisions could ...