Books

This collection contains 56 technical papers presented at the 2011 Architectural Engineering Conference, held in Oakland, California, March 30-April 2, 2011.

This report assesses the performance of essential buildings in New Orleans during and after Hurricane Katrina.

This collection contains 276 papers presented at  the 2011 Structures Congress, held in Las Vegas, Nevada, April 14-16, 2011.

This report introduces the basic tools and technology used by engineers to determine the effects of wind on city streets and structures.

This report presents guidelines for the use of explosives detection dogs in security inspections of public areas.

This collection contains 133 papers presented at the 2009 ATC & SEI Conference on Improving the Seismic Performance of Buildings and Other Structures, held in San Francisco, California, December 9-11, 2009.

Standard ASCE/SEI 7-10 provides requirements for general structural design and includes means for determining dead, live, soil, flood, wind, snow, rain, atmospheric ice, and earthquake loads, as well as their combinations, which are suitable for inclusion in building codes and other documents.

This book is an essential resource for candidates who are preparing for the Principles and Practice of Engineering (PE) examination in architectural engineering.

This report synthesizes the existing information on hybrid coupled wall (HCW) systems into helpful recommendations pertaining to their seismic analysis and design.

Finley Charney provides authoritative explanations of the seismic provisions offered in Minimum Design Loads for Buildings and Other Structures, Standard ASCE/SEI 7-05.