Abstract: The design of a large proportion of the low-rise metal buildings in the United States is based on the ASCE 7-93 Standard and the use of allowable stress design (ASD). In this paper we examine, for a typical case, the ...

Abstract: Data sets in civil and structural engineering are often statistically challenging. This is because the data are from one-of-a-kind systems such as buildings and other large facilities, as opposed to replicated systems as ...

Abstract: There are two goals in this paper: (1) the presentation of a comprehensive database of over 4,000 fundamental period and damping measurements from nearly 1,000 buildings; and (2) the derivation of predictive models for ...