Residential Structural Design Guide: 2000 Edition

This guide strives to "bridge the gap" between conventional engineering practices and conventional residential construction practices. The information and design guidance provides a useful and unique technical resource to structural designers involved in the residential market. The intent is to build upon and supplement current design practices and building code provisions with valuable engineering information, research findings, and practical insights that may better explain or account for the weak and strong points of conventional or engineered housing when considered as a structural system. The guide addresses house design from the footing to the ridge and includes separate chapters on lateral design for wind and seismic forces and on connections. A brief overview of the housing market as well as sound data on housing performance is also included to help build a sound perspective. The text is suitable for a design professional/practitioner as well as the student engineer and it is richly embellished with references and practical design examples.

Published in 2000
428 pages
$75.00