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Apr 26, 2012
Load Combination Requirements in ASCE Standard 7-10: New Developments
Authors: Therese P. McAllister [email protected] and Bruce R. Ellingwood [email protected]Author Affiliations
Publication: Structures Congress 2011
Abstract
The fundamental load combination requirements for strength design (or load and resistance factor design) appearing in Section 2.3 of ASCE Standard 7-10 incorporate major revisions, among them the treatment of self-straining actions, fluid and soil loads, load combinations for extraordinary events, and probability-based load requirements for non-specified loads. The last item is based on suggested reliability levels for the new performance-based design procedures in the Section 1.3.1 Commentary. The Commentary to Section 2 of ASCE Standard 7-10 presents the technical basis for these changes. Since the basis of the traditional allowable stress design combinations was purely judgmental, the ASD combinations in Section 2.4 have been brought into alignment with the strength combinations in Section 2.3, which have a rational reliability basis.
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Published online: Apr 26, 2012
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ASCE Technical Topics:
- Allowable stress design
- Business management
- Construction engineering
- Construction management
- Design (by type)
- Drag (fluid dynamics)
- Engineering fundamentals
- Fluid mechanics
- Geomechanics
- Geotechnical engineering
- Hydrologic engineering
- Load and resistance factor design
- Load combinations
- Load factors
- Organizations
- Practice and Profession
- Professional societies
- Soil mechanics
- Soil properties
- Soil strength
- Standards and codes
- Structural behavior
- Structural design
- Structural engineering
- Structural strength
- Water and water resources
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Research Structural Engineer, Building and Fire Research Laboratory, National Institute of Standards and Technology, Gaithersburg, MD 20899.E-mail: [email protected]
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The Raymond Allen Jones Chair in Civil Engineering, School of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA 30332.E-mail: [email protected]
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