TY - BOOK AU - Simiu, Emil TI - Design of buildings and bridges for wind: : a practical guide for ASCE-7 standard users and designers of special structure SN - 9780471657439 U1 - 624.175 PY - 2006/// CY - New Jersey PB - John Wiley and Sons KW - Wind-pressure N1 - 1. Introduction -- 2. Wind engineering fundamentals -- 3. ASCE 7 standard provisions -- 4. Rigid and flexible buildings -- 5. Bridges N2 - ASCE 7 is the US standard for identifying minimum design loads for buildings and other structures. ASCE 7 covers many load types, of which wind is just one. The nature of the code is that it is very difficult to master for non-specialists, and yet it is non-specialists who design the vast majority of structures ER -