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Online Structural Engineering Library
A
collection of publications available on the internet at no cost.
(Currently 607 different recources in 19 sections).
New Additions:
Standards and design codes
Title 14: Housing and Construction. Chapter 7: Building Codes General.
Part 4: 2003 New Mexico Earthen Building Materials Code. Available from
Quentin Wilson - The Adobe Resource of Northern New Mexico.
FEMA 274: NEHRP Commentary on the Guidelines for the Seismic
Rehabilitation of Buildings, (1997). BSSC Seismic Rehabilitation Project.
Federal Emergency Management Agency. Issued by FEMA in furtherance of the
Decade for Natural Disaster Reduction.
FEMA 310: Handbook for the Seismic Evaluation of Buildings: A
Prestandard, (1998). American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE). Federal
Emergency Management Agency (FEMA).
FEMA 356: Prestandard and Commentary for the Seismic Rehabilitation of
Buildings, (2000). American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE). Federal
Emergency Management Agency (FEMA).
FEMA 357: Global Topics Report on the Prestandard and Commentary for the
Seismic Rehabilitation of Buildings, (2000). American Society of Civil
Engineers (ASCE). Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA).
Repair and Retrofit of Structures
FEMA 306: Evaluation of Earthquake Damaged Concrete and Masonry Wall
Buildings: Basic Procedures Manual, (1998). Applied Technology Council
(ATC), The Partnership for Response and Recovery, Federal Emergency
Management Agency.
FEMA 307: Evaluation of Earthquake Damaged Concrete and Masonry Wall
Buildings: Technical Resources, (1998). Applied Technology Council (ATC),
The Partnership for Response and Recovery, Federal Emergency Management
Agency.
Taghdi M., Bruneau M., Saatcioglu M. (2000). Seismic retrofit of low-rise
masonry and concrete walls using steel-strips. ASCE Journal of Structural
Engineering, Vol.126, No.9, pp.1017-1025.
Pollino M., Bruneau M., (2007). Seismic Retrofit of Bridge Steel Truss
Piers Using a Controlled Rocking Approach. ASCE Journal of Bridge
Engineering, Vol.12, No.5, pp.600-610.
Pollino M., Bruneau M., (2004). Seismic Retrofit of Bridge Steel Truss
Pier Anchorage Connections. 13th World Conference on Earthquake
Engineering, Vancouver, Canada, August 2004 - CD-ROM paper #3303.
Steel Structures
Berman J.W., Bruneau M., (2005). Experimental Investigation of
Light-Gauge Steel Plate Shear Walls. ASCE. Journal of Structural
Engineering, Vol. 131, No.2, pp. 259-267.
Berman J.W., Bruneau M., (2004). Plastic Design and Testing of
Light-Gauge Steel Plate Shear Walls. 13th World Conference on Earthquake Engineering,
Vancouver, Canada, August 2004 - CD-ROM paper #3323.
Berman J.W., Bruneau M., (2003). Plastic Analysis and Design of Steel
Plate Shear Walls. ASCE. Journal of Structural Engineering, Vol.129,
No.11, pp.1448- 1456.
Seismic Design
FEMA 154: Rapid Visual Screening of Buildings for Potential Seismic
Hazards: A Handbook, (2002). Second Edition. U.S. Department of Homeland
Security. National Earthquake Hazards Reduction Program (NEHRP). Applied
Technology Council (ATC). Washington DC.
FEMA 172: Reducing the Risks of Nonstructural Earthquake Damage: A
Practical Guide, 3rd Edition, (1992). Program on Improved Seismic Safety
Provisions. Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA), The Decade for
Natural Disaster Reduction.
FEMA 350: Recommended Seismic Design Criteria for New Steel Moment-Frame
Buildings, (2000). Program to reduce the Earthquake Hazards of Steel-
Moment Frame Structures. Structural Engineers Association of California
(SEAOC), Applied Technology Council (ATC) California Universities for
Research in Earthquake Engineering (CUREe), SAC Joint Venture.
FEMA 349: Action Plan for Performance Based Seismic Design, (2000).
Federal Emergency Management Agency Action Plan for Performance based
Seismic Design. Earthquake Engineering Research Institute.
FEMA 445: Next-Generation Performance-Based Seismic Design Guidelines:
Program Plan for New and Existing Buildings, (2006). Department of
Homeland Security. Applied Technology Council (ATC), Federal Emergency
Management Agency (FEMA). Washington, D.C.
Bruneau M., Marson J., (2004). Seismic Design of Concrete-Filled Circular
Steel Bridge Piers. ASCE Journal of Bridge Engineering, Vol.9, No.1,
pp.24- 34.
Bruneau M., (2005). Seismic Retrofit of Steel Structure. 1st Canadian
Conference on Effective Design of Structures, McMaster University,
Hamilton, Ontario, Canada, July, 2005.
Tsai K.C., Hsiao C.P. Bruneau M., (2000). Overview of Building Damages in
921 Chi-Chi Earthquake. Earthquake Engineering and Engineering
Seismology, Vol.2, No.1, pp.93-108.
Bruneau M., (1998). Performance of Steel Bridges during the 1995
Hyogo-ken Nanbu (Kobe, Japan) Earthquake - A North American Perspective.
Engineering Structures, Vol. 20, No.12, 1998, pp.1063- 1078. Elsevier
Science Ltd.
Tremblay R., Bruneau M., Nakashima M., Prion H.G.L., Filiatrault M.,
DeVall R., (1996). Seismic Design of Steel Buildings: Lessons from the
1995 Hyogo-ken Nanbu Earthquake. Canadian Journal of Civil Engineering,
Vol.23, No.3, pp.727-756.
Suzuki Y., Fujiwara T., Nakashima M., Bruneau M., Iwai S., Kitahara A.,
(1995). Overview of Building Damage and Damage to Wood Houses from the
1995 Hyogoken-Nambu Earthquake. Journal of Natural Disaster Sciences,
Vol.16, No.2, pp.79-87.
Nakashima M., Fujiwara T., Suzuki Y., Bruneau M., Iwai S., Kitahara A.,
(1995). Damage to Engineered Buildings from the 1995 Hyogoken-Nambu
Earthquake. Journal of Natural Disaster Sciences, Vol.16, No.2, pp.71-78.
Bruneau M., (1995). Performance of Masonry Structures during the 1994,
Northridge (Los Angeles) Earthquake. Canadian Journal of Civil
Engineering, Vol.22, No.2, pp.378-402.
Mitchell D., Bruneau M., Williams M., Anderson D.L., Saaticioglu M.,
Sexsmith, R.G., (1995). Performance of Bridges during the 1994 Northridge
Earthquake. Canadian Journal of Civil Engineering, Vol.22, No.2,
pp.415-427.
Tremblay R., Timler P., Bruneau M., Filiatrault A., (1995). Performance
of Steel Structures during the January 17, 1994, Northridge earthquake.
Canadian Journal of Civil Engineering, Vol.22, No.2, pp.338-360.
Saaticioglu M., Bruneau M., (1994). Performance of Reinforced Concrete
Structures during the 1992 Erzincan Earthquake. ACI Concrete
International Journal, Vol.16, No.9, pp. 51-56.
Bruneau M., Saatcioglu M., (1994). Behavior of Unreinforced Masonry
Structures during the 1992 Erzincan, Turkey, Earthquake. Masonry Society
Journal, Vol.12, No.2, pp.78-87.
Bruneau M., (1994). Seismic Evaluation of Unreinforced Masonry Buildings
- A State-of-the-Art Report. Canadian Journal of Civil Engineering,
Vol.21, No.3, pp.512-539.
Bruneau M., (1994). State-of-the-Art Report on the Seismic Performance of
Unreinforced Masonry Buildings. ASCE Journal of Structural Engineering,
Vol.120, No.1, pp.230-251.
General
FEMA 424: Design Guide for Improving School Safety in Earthquakes, Floods,
and High Winds, (2004). Risk Management Series. U.S. Department of
Homeland Security.
FEMA 577: Design Guide for Improving Hospital Safety in Earthquakes,
Floods, and High Winds: Providing Protection to People and Buildings,
(2007). Risk Management Series. U.S. Department of Homeland Security.
Pavel Kuklík, (2008). Lusitanian timber framed masonry via FINE Ltd.
civil engineering software. Collection WTA 08. CTU in Prague, Faculty of
Civil Engineering, Department of mechanics, Czech Republic.
Susan Rutherford, (2006). The Green Buildings Guide - Tools for Local
Governments to promote Site Sustainability. West Coast Environmental Law,
The Real Estate Foundation of British Columbia, The Law Foundation of
British Columbia.
Leed- Canada-NC, Version 1.0, (2004). Green Building Rating System - For
New Construction & Major Renovations. LEED, Canada Green Building
Coucil.
Soft Computing Applications
J.B. Alam, C.K. Sarkar and E.U. Ahmed, (2007). Technical Note: Study on
Thickness of Two-way slab by Artificial Neural Network. Asian Journal of
Civil Engineering (Building and Housing) Vol 8, No. 5 (2007), pp.
573-579.
Concrete Structures
The European Guidelines for Self-Compacting Concrete - Specification,
Production and Use, (2005). The European Project Group. European
Federation for Specialist Construction Chemicals and Concrete Systems.
Guidelines for Viscosity Modifying Admixtures for Concrete, (2006).
European Federation of Concrete Admixture Associations (EFCA), European
Federation for Specialist Construction Chemicals and Concrete Systems.
Bridges
S. N. Huang, X. Z. Lu, L. P. Ye, Y. K. Liu, (2007). Nonlinear Finite
Element Analysis for a Prestressed Continuous Rigid Frame Concrete
Bridge. Proceeding of the International Symposium on Computational
Mechanics (ISCM2007), July 30-August 1, 2007, Beijing, China.
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