Seismic Design of Building Structures: A Professional's Introduction to Earthquake Forces and Design Details

by Michael R. Lindeburg and Kurt M. McMullin

Book Overview

"Seismic Design of Building Structures" provides a comprehensive introduction to core seismic concepts and principles, and offers essential background information for seismic problems on the... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0912045914
• ISBN13: 9780912045917
• Release Date: January 1996
• Publisher: Professional Publications Inc
• Length: 216 Pages
• Weight: 3.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 8.6" x 11.0"

Customer Reviews

Excellent Seismic Reference

I bought this book to study for the PE Structural 1. It is a thorough, item by item book that has excellent symbol references, clear definitions, worked examples etc. The author is interested on you, the reader, understanding seismic design, unlike many of the other books on the market that cater to someone impressing their literary peers. The UBC 97 was a landmark in Seismic design, and although I agree with the other reviews that it may seem "out of date", I found it helpful to use this book to learn the fundamentals regading seismic, which are still the same in today's codes. Excellent chapters on vibration and diagphragm analysis. All I can say is that it helped me tremendously in the PE, which is the reason I bought it.

Essential book for the California Civil PE Exam

I cannot express my regret at not having this with me at the seismic portion of the California Civil PE exam. This is one of Lindeburg's best, and is a great reference for the exam and in daily use in seismic design. Well worth every penny. My only hope for this is that he updates it once California (finally) adopts the IBC building code.

Great 101+ on Seismic Design

While obviously intended to serve as a preparation textbook for professional engineering exam, it provides all essentials concepts and practical solutions for Seismic Design on a decent engineering level. It is not a how-to-do manual, but sufficiently updated with current UBC development and details it is very handy to have it around for a practicing engineer.

Best Civil PE Review Book I Bought

I purchased this book and several others to review for the Civil PE exam and California's special seismic exam. Although it's a fairly slim volume, it contains exactly the information you need to master in order to do well on the seismic exam--no more, no less. Also, since it has copies of the UBC tables needed for the exam questions, you could actually use it during the exam as a reference instead of buying the UBC, which is much more expensive. Even though I had both, I found it more convenient to use this book during the exam. P.S. to Mr. Lendvay: I passed.