Overview
This course will review the procedures and formulas required to determine the appropriate forces which residential buildings could become subjected to during hurricanes, earthquakes, tsunamis and other severe natural hazard events. The design procedures required to determine the site specific design loads (forces) which will be applied to the structure, is the basis of this course.
Various case studies of residential buildings will be analyzed with sample calculations demonstrating the procedures are covered in this course.
The design professional should be familiar with the pertinent sections of the IRC 2000, in addition to those sections of the IBC 2000, which may be cited within this course. Additional reference sources should also include one or more of the following sources in high wind zones. Specific sections of the code and tables have been referenced in these various sources; calculations outside of the confines of this course would require these reference materials, however the various references would not be required to complete the test for this course.
- Minimum Design Loads for Buildings and other structures (ASCE 7-98)
- American Forest and Paper Association (AF&PA) Wood Frame Construction Manual for One and Two- Family Dwellings (WFCM)
- Southern Building Code Congress International Standard for Hurricane Resistant Residential Construction (SSTD 10)
In this course the design method is Allowable Stress Design (ASD), so there are factors of safety (FS) built into the development of the material stresses and the forces at the connections. This design method has been chosen because (ASD) continues to be the predominant design method in light-frame, residential, wood construction.
The design process starts by determining all of the site-specific design loads (forces):
- Dead loads
- Live loads
- Snow loads
- Flood loads and the various components
- Tsunami loads
- Wind loads and the various components
- Earthquake (seismic) and the various components
The student must take a multiple-choice quiz consisting of thirty (30) questions at the end of this course to earn PDH credits.
Specific Knowledge or Skill Obtained
This course teaches the following specific knowledge and skills:
- Dead loads
- Live loads
- Snow loads
- Flood loads and the various components
- Tsunami loads
- Wind loads and the various components
- Earthquake (seismic) and the various components
Course
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Determining Site Specific Loads
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