Wind Tunnel Testing, ASCE/SEI 49-2021
What Are Wind Tunnels? Any city person knows the feeling: you’re walking down a calm street, but, after turning onto another block, you feel a […]
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Rain Loads: Design Guidance in ASCE/SEI 7-2022
A single droplet of rain means no true threat, and similarly, rainfall, at ordinary intensities, is rarely a cause for immobilizing concern. However, by weighing […]
ASCE/SEI 7-2022: Minimum Design Loads for Buildings
Among the many considerations for ensuring effective building design and construction, there are loads, or forces or other actions that result from the weight of […]
Bridges in America: Faulty Infrastructure
Bridges may not quite be the backbone of infrastructure, but they certainly make up much of its skeletal system. Providing pedestrian and vehicular passageways over […]
Changes to ASCE/SEI 4-2016 – Seismic Analysis of Safety-Related Nuclear Structures
ASCE/SEI 4-2016 – Seismic Analysis of Safety-Related Nuclear Structures has been released. This standard, developed by the American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE), provides minimum […]