Author : Coulbourne Consulting
Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN 13 : 9781721639199
Total Pages : 402 pages
Book Rating : 4.95/5 ( download)
Book Synopsis Residential Structural Design Guide, Second Edition by : Coulbourne Consulting
Download or read book Residential Structural Design Guide, Second Edition written by Coulbourne Consulting and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2018-06-23 with total page 402 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.