Tall building design steel, concrete, and composite systems – Bungale S. Taranath (KENCT0007)

Tall building design steel, concrete, and composite systems – Bungale S. Taranath

CONTENTS:

Chapter 1 Loads on Building Structures

Chapter 2 Wind Loads

Chapter 3 Earthquake Effects on Buildings

Chapter 4 Wind Load Analysis of Buildings

Chapter 5 Seismic Design with Particular Reference to ASCE 7-10 Seismic Provisions

Chapter 6 Performance-Based Design

Chapter 7 Preliminary Calculations to Ensure Validity of Computer Analysis

Chapter 8 Seismic Evaluation and Rehabilitation of Existing Buildings

Chapter 9 Special Topics

Chapter 10 Torsion

Chapter 11 Seismic Design: A Pictorial Review

Chapter 12 Steel Buildings: Bolted and Welded Connections, Gravity, and Lateral Load-Resisting Systems and Details

Chapter 13 Composite Buildings: Structural System and Details

Tall  buildings  have  a  unique  appeal,  even  an  air  of  romance  and mystery  associated with  their design. The adoration that super- and ultratall buildings command lies in their apparent freedom from gravity loads—they do not just stand tall, they seem to do so effortlessly resisting gravity as well as laterally directed force generated by wind gusts and seismic ground motions.

Tall buildings have fascinated humans from the beginning of civilization—the primary motivation was to create monuments rather than human habitats  Today’s structures, on the other hand, are human habitats—not allowed by economics and design to be nearly as simple, heavy, stiff, and robust as their relatively recent counterparts such as the Empire State Building of the 1930s.

Although tall buildings are unique from certain aspects such as consideration of lateral deflection, their design, in a manner of speaking, is similar to the design of their lower brethren. Thus the material presented in this book applies equally to not-so-tall buildings as well