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This collection contains 106 papers on wind engineering and hurricane mitigation presented at the ATC & SEI Conference on Advances in Hurricane Engineering, held in Miami, Florida, October 24-26, 2012.

This collection contains 99 papers on a broad range of topics in architectural engineering presented at the 2013 Architectural Engineering Conference, held April 3-5, 2013 in State College, Pennsylvania.

Failure Case Studies in Civil Engineering: Structures, Foundations, and the Geoenvironment, Second Edition, provides short descriptions of 50 real-world examples of performance failures designed specifically for classroom use.

This report summarizes the range of tensile membrane structure forms and their applications and documents the current state of knowledge regarding loading, form finding, and nonlinear analysis of membrane structures.

Mehta and Coulbourne explain the wind load provisions of Standard ASCE/SEI 7-10 as they affect the planning, design, and construction of buildings for residential and commercial purposes.

This online-only collection contains 151 peer-reviewed papers presented at the 2012 International Conference on Civil Engineering and Urban Planning, held in Yantai, China, August 18-20, 2012.

Gatscher, McGavin, and Caldwell present a framework for applying the latest earthquake engineering research to the nonstructural elements of individual building projects, concentrating on mechanical and electrical systems.

LNMech 1 presents a new method for structural engineers to approximately analyze the mechanics of beams and frames, complementing the results produced by computer software.

Wind Issues in the Design of Buildings explains the ways that structural designers accommodate the impact of extreme wind events on the built environment.

ASCE/SEI 49-12 provides the minimum requirements for conducting and interpreting wind tunnel tests to determine wind loads on buildings and other structures.