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guidelines for conducting structural assessments of exisiting buildings

guidelines for conducting structural assessments of exisiting buildings

guidelines for conducting structural assessments of exisiting buildings

(OP)
Hello, hope all is great.

Would anyone happen to know of any guidelines for conducting a structural assessment of an exisiting building? I am only familiar with the two guidelines listed below:

1. The Building Authority in Singapore has a guideline on periodic structural engineering inspections of existing buildings:

http://www.bca.gov.sg/PeriodicStructuralInspection...

2. Furthermore, the American Society of Civil Engineers has a guideline on the structural condition assessment of existing buildings:

http://www.asce.org/Books-and-Journals/Books---Per...

Thanks,

Joseph

RE: guidelines for conducting structural assessments of exisiting buildings

The book titled "Structural Condition Assessment" by Robert T. Ratay has some useful information.

RE: guidelines for conducting structural assessments of exisiting buildings

Experience.

RE: guidelines for conducting structural assessments of exisiting buildings

Ron... I've had a few bad ones...

Dik

RE: guidelines for conducting structural assessments of exisiting buildings

dik...same here. We often learn most from those!

RE: guidelines for conducting structural assessments of exisiting buildings

Ron:

I noticed the word "often"... bigsmile

Mike McCann
MMC Engineering
http://mmcengineering.tripod.com

RE: guidelines for conducting structural assessments of exisiting buildings

(OP)
Thanks everyone for all the tips. The book by Robert T. Ratay looks good. Here is a presentation by him on Structural Condition Assessment:

http://www.ucs.iastate.edu/mnet/_repository/2009/s...

RE: guidelines for conducting structural assessments of exisiting buildings

In 2002, SEAW (Structural Engineers Association of Washington) produced a three ring binder entitled "Seismic Evaluation and Rehabilitation of Buildings" that has a lot of useful guidelines too for all sorts of structural configurations... if you are in a seismic region, which most of us are, as we are finding out.

Mike McCann
MMC Engineering
http://mmcengineering.tripod.com

RE: guidelines for conducting structural assessments of exisiting buildings

Very instructive. I particularly liked the last step.

BA

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