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Minimum Design Loads for Buildings and Other Structures

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  • Prepared by the Committee on Minimum Design Loads for Buildings and Other Structures of the Codes and Standards Activities Division of the Structural Engineering Institute of ASCE

    Minimum Design Loads for Buildings and Other Structures, ASCE/SEI 7-10, provides requirements for general structural design and includes means for determining dead, live, soil, flood, snow, rain, atmospheric ice, earthquake, and wind loads, as well as their combinations, which are suitable for inclusion in building codes and other documents. This standard, a revision of ASCE/SEI 7-05, offers a complete update and reorganization of the wind load provisions, expanding them from one chapter to six. The standard contains new ultimate event wind maps with corresponding reductions in load factors so that the loads are not affected and updates the seismic loads with new risk-targeted seismic maps. The snow, live, and atmospheric icing provisions are updated as well. In addition, the standard includes a detailed Commentary with explanatory and supplementary information designed to assist building code committees and regulatory authorities.

    The third printing of Standard ASCE/SEI 7-10 incorporates errata and includes Supplement 1. In addition, the seismic commentary has been expanded and completely revised.

    Standard ASCE/SEI 7 is an integral part of building codes in the United States. Many of the load provisions are substantially adopted by reference in the International Building Code and the NFPA 5000 Building Construction and Safety Code.

    Structural engineers, architects, and those engaged in preparing and administering local building codes will find the structural load requirements essential to their practice.

    This title is not available for download by the chapter.

    Note: Purchasers of the first and second printings of this standard can download the errata and Supplement 1. The expanded seismic commentary is available free from the ASCE Library.

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Front Matter
i–xli
    Chapter 1 General
    1–5
    Chapter 2 Combinations of Loads
    7–8
    Chapter 3 Dead Loads, Soil Loads, and Hydrostatic Pressure
    Chapter 4 Live Loads
    11–16
    Chapter 5 Flood Loads
    17–20
    Chapter 6 Reserved for Future Provisions
    Chapter 7 Snow Loads
    23–34
    Chapter 8 Rain Loads
    35–35
    Chapter 9 Reserved for Future Provisions
    Chapter 10 Ice Loads—Atmospheric Icing
    39–47
    Chapter 11 Seismic Design Criteria
    49–57
    Chapter 12 Seismic Design Requirements for Building Structures
    59–85
    Chapter 13 Seismic Design Requirements for Nonstructural Components
    87–97
    Chapter 14 Material Specific Seismic Design and Detailing Requirements
    99–104
    Chapter 15 Seismic Design Requirements for Nonbuilding Structures
    105–119
    Chapter 16 Seismic Response History Procedures
    121–122
    Chapter 17 Seismic Design Requirements for Seismically Isolated Structures
    123–131
    Chapter 18 Seismic Design Requirements for Structures with Damping Systems
    133–145
    Chapter 19 Soil-Structure Interaction for Seismic Design
    147–149
    Chapter 20 Site Classification Procedure for Seismic Design
    151–152
    Chapter 21 Site-Specific Ground Motion Procedures for Seismic Design
    153–155
    Chapter 22 Seismic Ground Motion Long-Period Transition and Risk Coefficient Maps
    157–177
    Chapter 23 Seismic Design Reference Documents
    179–182
    Chapter 24 Intentionally Left Blank
    Chapter 25 Intentionally Left Blank
    Chapter 26 Wind Loads: General Requirements
    187–201
    Chapter 27 Wind Loads on Buildings—MWFRS (Directional Procedure)
    203–238
    Chapter 28 Wind Loads on Buildings—MWFRS (Envelope Procedure)
    239–247
    Chapter 29 Wind Loads on Other Structures and Building Appurtenances—MWFRS
    249–255
    Chapter 30 Wind Loads—Components and Cladding (C&C)
    257–297
    Chapter 31 Wind Tunnel Procedure
    299–299
    Appendix 11A Quality Assurance Provisions
    301–303
    Appendix 11B Existing Building Provisions
    305–305
    Appendix C Serviceability Considerations
    307–307
    Appendix D Buildings Exempted from Torsional Wind Load Cases
    309–312
    Commentary for Chapters 1-10
    313–384
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    Minimum Design Loads for Buildings and Other Structures (ASCE/SEI 7-10), Commentary for Chapters C11-C22 (Seismic), first and second printings, by ASCE
    385–511
      Commentary for Chapters 26-31 (wind)
      513–566
      Commentary for Appendixes C and D
      569–582
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      Index
      583–593
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        Errata for Minimum Design Loads for Buildings and Other Structures (ASCE/SEI 7-10), first and second printings, by ASCE
        E1–E52
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          Supplement 1 toMinimum Design Loads for Buildings and Other Structures (ASCE/SEI 7-10), first and second printings
          S1–S17
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            Errata for Minimum Design Loads for Buildings and Other Structures (ASCE/SEI 7-10), all printings, by ASCE
            E1–E7
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              Supplement 2 to Minimum Design Loads for Buildings and Other Structures (ASCE/SEI 7-10), first, second, and third printings
              S1–S2
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