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Minimum Design Loads for Buildings and Other Structures

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Abstract

  • Prepared by the Minimum Design Loads on Buildings and Other Structures Standards Committee of Management Group F, Codes and Standards, of ASCE

    Minimum Design Loads for Buildings and Other Structures, ANSI/ASCE 7-95, provides requirements for dead, live, soil, flood, wind, snow, rain, ice, and earthquake loads, as well as their combinations. The provisions pertaining to flood and ice loads are completely new, as is the appendix on serviceability. Significant revisions have been made to the wind, snow, and seismic provisions. The wind provisions represent a significant advance in the methodology of calculating wind loads and now utilize three-second gust wind speeds. The seismic provisions of 7-93 have been revised to reflect revisions contained in the 1994 NEHRP Recommended Provisions. The commentary of each section has been greatly expanded to aid the user in understanding the provisions and their application.

    Standard ASCE 7-95 replaces ASCE 7-93.

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Front Matter
i–xxii
    Chapter 1 General
    1–3
    Chapter 2 Combinations of Factored Loads
    3–4
    Chapter 3 Dead Loads
    4–4
    Chapter 4 Live Loads
    4–9
    Chapter 5 Soil and Hydrostatic Pressure and Flood Loads
    9–12
    Chapter 6 Wind Loads
    12–34
    Chapter 7 Snow Loads
    34–45
    Chapter 8 Rain Loads
    45–46
    Chapter 9 Earthquake Loads
    46–104
    Chapter 10 Ice Loads—Atmospheric Icing
    105–106
    Appendix A Section 9—Supplemental Provisions
    107–123
    Appendix B Serviceability Considerations
    124–127
    Commentary
    128–205
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    Index
    207–214
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