Residential Structural Design Guide, Second Edition: A State-of-the-Art Engineering Resource for Light-Frame Homes, Apartments, and Townhouses

Second Edition, October 2017, 402 pages: This document is a unique and comprehensive tool for design professionals, particularly structural engineers, seeking to provide value-added services to the producers and consumers of American housing. As such, the guide is organized around the following major objectives.• To present a sound perspective on American housing relative to its history, construction characteristics, regulation, and performance experience.• To provide the latest technical knowledge and engineering approaches for the design of homes to complement current code-prescribed design methods.• To assemble relevant design data and methods in a single, comprehensive format that is instructional and simple to apply for the complete design of a home.• To reveal areas in which gaps in existing research, design specifications, and analytic tools necessitate alternative methods of design and sound engineering judgment to produce efficient designs.