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Essential Requirements For Reinforced Concrete Buildings
2002, 248 pp.
$80.50

This document, based on ACI 318-02, provides the engineer with simple, conservative rules for quickly designing low- and midrise structures. Features include:

- Mandatory language for clarity of intent;

- Code requirements that are given in the approximate order needed for design;

- Three-dimensional drawings and graphs that help explain various provisions;

- Minimum member dimensions that replace sophisticated deflection checks;

- A chapter that further explains design load conditions;

- A direct approach for resolving seismic forces by using shearwall systems; and

- A simplified analysis procedure that can be performed with a handheld calculator.

A Colombian technical committee, chaired by Luis Garcia, a member of ACI Committee 318, authored the Essential Requirements publication. It is the first document in ACI’s International Publication Series.

Contents:
Chapter 1-General Requirements

Chapter 2-Definitions and nomenclature

Chapter 3-Structural System Layout

Chapter 4-Loads

Chapter 5-General reinforced concrete requirements

Chapter 6-Floor Systems

Chapter 7-Solid slabs supported on girders, beams, joists, or reinforced concrete walls

Chapter 8-Girders, beams, and joists

Chapter 9-Slab-Column Systems

Chapter 10-Columns

Chapter 11-Lateral-Force resistance

Chapter 12-Reinforced Concrete Walls

Chapter 13-Other Structural Members

Chapter 14-Foundations

Chapter 15-Drawings and Specifications

Chapter 16-Construction

Chapter 17-Referenced Standards and Reports

Appendix-Comparison of Essential Requirements to ACI 318-02, IBC 2000, and ASCE 7-98