Significant Changes to the Minimum Design Load Provisions of ASCE 7-16

Additions, deletions, and modifications made to Chapter 1, General Requirements, of ASCE/SEI 7-16 are presented. The description of these substantive changes is accompanied by an explanation of the rationale behind each change and a detailed analysis of its implications, generously illustrated by photographs, diagrams, and other visual aids. Topics include scope, performance-based procedures, and fire resistance.

Additions, deletions, and modifications made to Chapters 3 and 4 of ASCE/SEI 7-16 are presented. The description of these substantive changes is accompanied by an explanation of the rationale behind each change and a detailed analysis of its implications, generously illustrated by photographs, diagrams, and other visual aids. Topics include dead loads and live loads.

Additions, deletions, and modifications made to Chapters 7, 8, and 10 of ASCE/SEI 7-16 are presented. The description of these substantive changes is accompanied by an explanation of the rationale behind each change and a detailed analysis of its implications, generously illustrated by photographs, diagrams, and other visual aids. Topics include snow loads, rain loads, and ice loads.

Additions, deletions, and modifications made to Chapters 11 to 23, covering earthquake loads, of ASCE/SEI 7-16 are presented. The description of these substantive changes is accompanied by an explanation of the rationale behind each change and a detailed analysis of its implications, generously illustrated by photographs, diagrams, and other visual aids. Topics include seismic design criteria, requirements for buildings, requirements for nonstructural components, requirements for nonbuilding structures, nonlinear response history analysis, requirements for seismically isolated structures, requirements for structures with damping systems, soil-structure interaction, site classification, site-specific ground motion procedures, and seismic maps.

Additions, deletions, and modifications made to chapters 26 to 31, covering wind loads, of ASCE/SEI 7-16 are presented. The description of these substantive changes is accompanied by an explanation of the rationale behind each change and a detailed analysis of its implications, generously illustrated by photographs, diagrams, and other visual aids. Topics include general requirements, wind loads on buildings and appurtenances using main wind force resisting system calculations, and wind loads on components and cladding.

The addition of Chapter 6, Tsunami Loads and Effects, of ASCE/SEI 7-16 is presented. The description of this new chapter includes a summary of the key terms and requirements, generously illustrated by photographs, diagrams, and other visual aids.