Seismic Design of Building Structures: A Professional's Introduction to Earthquake Forces and Design Details, 8th ed. - Softcover

Lindeburg, Michael R.; Baradar, Majid

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1888577525 ISBN 13: 9781888577525

Publisher: Professional Pubns Inc, 2001

Synopsis

Seismic Design of Building Structures provides essential background instruction for the seismic problems on the civil PE exam. Using relevant codes, this book presents topics from basic seismic concepts through detailing requirements. The 30 sample problems and 113 practice problems, all with step-by-step solutions, offer valuable preparation for the exam. The eighth edition references the 1997 Uniform Building Code, the version of the code currently tested on the exam.

Exam subjects covered include:

Analysis of diaphragms
Detailing of roof-wall connections
Calculating chord and strut forces
UBC nailing requirements
Bolt strengths

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About the Author

Michael R. Lindeburg, PE, is recognized among the engineering community as the leading authority on professional engineering licensing exam preparation. The author of many books on this subject, he has taught and supervised exam-review courses for over 25 years. He holds BS and MS degrees from Stanford University in industrial engineering.

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From "How to Use This Book" If you are the type who never reads instructions, here are my "Quickstart" theorems on how to get the most from Seismic Design of Building Structures during your exam preparation. 1.

Get a copy of UBC-97 2.

Start reading this book from the first chapter. Don't skip around. 3.

Read slowly; a page or two a day is plenty. Look up every code section referred to. 4.

Work all of the example and practice problems. Here are my "Quickstart" corollaries on how to get the most from this book during the exam. 1.

Don't forget to take it with you. 2.

Put lots of tabs on the UBC tables (but, check with your State Board first; this is not allowed in some states.) 3.

Use the indexes extensively. Seismic Design was originally written specifically for exam review. But as the exam vacillated each year between areas of emphasis, the scope and depth of this book increased. By my own pronouncement, it is now one of the best quick-primers on seismic design in print. However, even though its scope and depth have increased by several orders of magnitude, I suspect this book will remain typecast in its leading role-that of an exam review book. Therefore, I am writing this section assuming that you are using Seismic Design for exam review. The actual exam is based on UBC-97. You are much more likely to need to pull a number out of the UBC than to read a code section. Not surprisingly, the only place where a complete compilation of all of the constants and other numerical values can be found is in UBC-97. The numerous tables and figures in this book give a false impression of completeness. True, every detail needed to solve the example and practice problems is contained somewhere in this book. However, the actual exam will not be so kind. It's always a shame to lose points simply because you couldn't perform a simple table look-up in the "the code." So, buy UBC-97.

Edition details

• Publisher: Professional Pubns Inc
• Publication date: 2001
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1888577525
• ISBN 13: 9781888577525
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 262