Minimum Design Loads for Buildings and Other Structures, SEI/ASCE 7-05: ASCE Standard No. 7-05

The ASCE Standard 7-05, Minimum Design Loads for Buildings and Other Structures, provides requirements for general structural design and includes means for determining dead, live, soil, flood, wind, snow, rain, atmospheric ice, and earthquake loads, and their combinations that are suitable for inclusion in building codes and other documents. This Standard is a revision of ASCE/SEI 7-02. This Standard includes revised and significantly reorganized provisions for seismic design of structures, as w…