Major Changes to the Wind & Seismic Provisions in ASCE 7-16 with the New Tsunami Provisions

Significant Changes in ASCE 7-16 Wind & Seismic Provisions and the New Tsunami Portion

Let’s look behind the curtain: A review of the major changes to the wind and seismic provisions in ASCE 7-16, with discussions of the reasons for many of those changes.

Now that most of us have had time to use ASCE 7-16, we have found that some big changes were introduced.  I suspect that many of us have said “That provision has been in ASCE 7 (or the UBC before it) for decades, why did it just change?  You can read the commentary, and get some insight, but you may still be wondering what instigated this particular change.  This portion of the seminar will go deeper into the reasons for many of the changes, and, in the limited time available, compare the new design loads with the loads calculated using the previous provisions.

The tsunami portion of the presentation will provide an overview of the new tsunami provisions included in ASCE 7-16 for the first time. The new tsunami provisions contain requirements that will be very different than other loading requirements such as wind or seismic. In addition to an overview of the provisions the presentation will work through a detailed design example. The example project will highlight the use of the design provisions providing a real world example of the application of the provisions in a project setting.     

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