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Showing 1 to 20 of 29 for “"ASCE 7"”.
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Performance Based Analysis of Steel Buildings
… of two separate building types, designed using ASCE 7-05, using the analysis procedures from ASCE 41-06. The results from the ASCE 41-06 analyses were compared to the expected performance level of Life Safety to determine the adequacy of the ASCE 7-05 design. ASCE 7-05 is intended to result in …
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Sensitivity of Steel Purlins to Changes in Application of Wind Loads
… obtained using the wind design provisions in ASCE 7-16 Chapter 30 for Components and Cladding. The primary data of interest was shear and moment values along the length of the purlins, which were modeled as continuous beams. Comparisons were made between the resultant shear and moment from …
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Approximating the Seismic Amplification Effects Experienced by Solar Towers Mounted on the Rooftops of Low-Rise Industrial Buildings
… of using amplification factors adopted by the ASCE 7-05Minimum Design Loads for Buildings and Other Structures to approximate seismic acceleration amplification for roof-mounted solar towers. To investigate the validity of the ASCE 7-05 amplification factors, this thesis conducts timehistory …
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Development of a Comprehensive Linear Response History Analysis Procedure for Seismic Load Analysis
… according to Chapter 16 of the American Standard ASCE 7-10. A careful analysis is presented about the selection of ground motions using real records and using artificial records generated such that their response spectrum matches with a defined target spectrum; three different techniques are …
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Lateral Strength and Ductile Behavior of a Mortise-Tenon Connected Timber Frame
… of ductile racking while reliably complying with ASCE 7-10 building code drift speci! cations, implying an increase in the ASCE 7-10 ductility factor (R) for wood frames when used as lateral force resisting elements. A secondary goal was to promote traditional heavy timber framing as a main …
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Seismic Performance and Damage Risk of Modular CLT Housing Using Nonlinear Time History Analysis
… wall lateral-force resisting system included in ASCE 7-22 (2022) and were designed using prescriptive code-based methods to represent a feasible construction alternative. The analyses were conducted under the performance-based earthquake engineering framework. Ground motion data sets were …
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Frequency Effect on Peak Pressure Coefficients Using the Narrowband Synthesis Random Flow Generator (NSRFG) Method
… in the design of buildings and other structures. ASCE 7-16 is the manual used for the design of these buildings and other structures throughout the country. These design criteria have been approved based on research projects involving experimental procedures. For the design of wind loads, ASCE …
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Base isolation case study
… thesis is the introduction of the current code, ASCE 7-05 into the base isolation design and the analysis of base isolation response due to seismic forces. An eight story irregular structure is modeled using SAP2000 structural program. The time history of Northridge earthquake is used as a …
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Performance-Based Analysis of Steel Buildings: Special Concentric Braced Frame
… analysis methods and evaluation criteria in ASCE 41-06 were used to evaluate a special concentric braced frame building based on the design standards in ASCE 7-05. A rectangular, six-story office building was evaluated using linear static, linear dynamic, nonlinear static, and nonlinear …
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Quantifying Seismic Risk for Portable Ground Support Equipment at Vandenberg Air Force Base
… throughout include but are not limited to IBC, ASCE 7, EWR 127-1, and AFSPCMAN 91-710.
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Effect of Viscous Fluid Dampers on Steel Moment Frame Designed for Strength and Hybrid Steel Moment Frame Design
… design could be studied. However, since ASCE 7 permits determining the elastic drifts by using the seismic design forces based on the computed fundamental period of the structure, without the upper limit (CuTa), the strength controlled design satisfied the drift limit requirements of ASCE …
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Performance-Based Analysis of a Reinforced Concrete Shear Wall Building
… concrete shear wall building was designed per ASCE 7-05, and then the performance was investigated using the four analysis procedures outlined in ASCE 41-06. The proposed building was planned as a 6-story office building in San Francisco, CA. The structural system consisted of a two-way flat …
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Effects of residual stresses and initial imperfections on earthquake response of steel moment frames
… and the seismic design requirements in ASCE-7 is not fully established. Since the DM, which was developed for design scenarios that do not contain seismic loading, includes the effects of initial geometric imperfections and inelastic behavior compounded by residual stresses, it is …
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A comparative study on the seismic performance of concrete and steel Diagrid structures
… to code based seismic design approach using ASCE 7-10. The seismic performances of both types of Diagrid structures were also compared to 8-story moment frame buildings and 60-story outrigger buildings for the two scenarios respectively. With all member sizes set to be fixed across all …
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Sensitivity Study on Modification of Vertical Distribution of Strength and Stiffness in Wood Shear Wall Building Models
… the ELF vertical force distribution method in ASCE 7 that assigns forces to each level based on weight and story height. The Triangular strength distribution (2) results from an assumed vertical force distribution that assigns lateral forces based on the seismic weight at each level. The …
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Rational Procedure for Damage Based Serviceability Design of Steel Buildings Under Wind Loads and a Simple Linear Response History Procedure for Building Codes
… of the NEHRP Recommended Seismic Provisions and ASCE 7. The procedure address the following issues: selection and scaling of ground motions, the use of spectral matched ground motions, design for dependent actions, and the scaling of responses with the response modification coefficient (R) and …
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Characterizing the Load-Deformation Behavior of Steel Deck Diaphragms using Past Test Data
… A new alternative diaphragm design procedure in ASCE 7-16 increases diaphragm seismic demand to better represent expected demands. The resulting elastic design forces from this method are reduced by a diaphragm design force reduction factor, Rs, to account for the ductility of the diaphragm …
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Wind tunnel investigation of wind load on a ground mounted photovoltaic tracker
… American Society of Civil Engineers Standard (ASCE 7-05) demonstrated reasonable agreement between the measured peak wind loads and design loads recommended by the standard.
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Influence of Turbulence on the Aerodynamics of Low-Rise Buildings
… consistent with the new requirements in ASCE 7 – 16. It is also found that the critical wind directions depend significantly on the turbulence level and building height. The critical wind directions for the corner zones of low-rise building roofs are primarily due to oblique angles (i.e., …
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Risk-Based Wind Loss and Mitigation for Residential Wood Framed Construction
… of one-story, single-family homes at each ASCE 7-10 wind contour through Monte Carlo simulation of local annual maximum wind speeds convolved with Hazus-MH economic loss functions for open terrain and non-open terrain. The results are integrated into a decision-making framework designed to …
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