The American Society of Civil Engineers has updated its design standards to better protect buildings and structures from severe flooding and sea level rise. A new supplement to ASCE/SEI 7-22 ties ...

The updated ASCE/SEI 7-22 Minimum Design Loads and Associated Criteria for Buildings and Other Structures includes the first-ever criteria for tornado-resistant design. “We’re not designing tornado ...

The latest ASCE/SEI 7-22 Minimum Design Loads and Associated Criteria for Buildings and Other Structures standard contains some notable changes. “Structural engineers should be aware of significant ...

Many transmission structures are tested to failure at full-scale, leading to an improved understanding of capacity compared to most structures. Typically when extreme wind events occur, the maximum ...

Keywords: Earthquake engineering, Seismic isolation, ASCE/SEI 7, Collapse performance, Risk assessment, Probabilistic analysis Abstract: This report presents an analytical study of the seismic ...

James “Jim” Rossberg, who fostered a community of structural engineers and helped expand the scope of the bible for structural design loads, died this week, the American Society of Civil Engineers ...

American Petroleum Institute's pressure vessel and tank committee recently concluded a 5-year effort to revise Standard 650 that provides design rules for reasonable margins against failure of ...

Keywords: seismic isolation, ASCE 7-2016 Standard, system property modification factors, bounding methods of analysis Abstract: This report provides guidance on the application of the provisions of ...