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This collection contains 267 papers presented at the 2013 Structures Congress held, May 2-4, 2013 in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.

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.

This report contains the findings of an engineering team that assessed the effects of the 2011 Tohoku, Japan earthquake and tsunami on engineered coastal structures.

This report contains the findings of an engineering team that assessed the performance of structures affected by the March 11, 2011, Tohoku, Japan, tsunami on the northeast coastline of Honshu Island.

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 report presents formal guidelines for the use of second-order inelastic analysis in the design and assessment of steel framing systems.

ASCE/SEI 48-11 provides a uniform basis for the design, detailing, fabrication, testing, assembly, and erection of steel tubular structures for electrical transmission poles.

This collection contains 162 peer-reviewed papers presented at the 13th ASCE Aerospace Division Conference on Engineering, Science, Construction, and Operations in Challenging Environments and the 5th NASA/ASCE Workshop on Granular Materials in Space Exploration, held in Pasadena, California, April 15-18, 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.

This report describes the technical, ethical, business, and legal components of a professional practice in forensic civil engineering in the United States.