Engineering Standards

Establishes the minimum requirements necessary to achieve an acceptable level of safety and performance for an automated people mover (APM) system. E-book.

Provides minimum requirements for planning, design, construction, and assessment of new and existing buildings subject to the effects of accidental or malicious explosions. E-book.

Focuses on the practical and engineering aspects of compaction grouting as a technique of ground improvement. E-book.

Describes the minimum design requirements for construction loads, load combinations, and load factors affecting buildings and other structures that are under construction. E-book.

Outlines the important mechanical and structural engineering considerations for stacks where the primary supporting shell is made of FRP. Printed book, call number: 697.8 .D47 2010.

Provides a uniform basis for the design, detailing, fabrication, testing, assembly, and erection of steel tubular structures for electrical transmission poles. E-book.

Provides structural engineering guidance regarding the design, evaluation, and testing of permanent anchorages and components that support façade access equipment and fall-arrest systems. Explains the OSHA regulations in terminology familiar to structural engineers. E-book.

Provides minimum requirements for the design and construction of structures located in flood hazard areas and subject to building code requirements. E-book.

Provides a guideline and methodology for assessing the condition and performance of existing building envelope systems and components, as well as identifying problematic and dysfunctional elements. E-book.

Provides the basis for developing a complete, comprehensive, and well-integrated agreement for allocating and managing shared water resources. E-book.

Guidelines for assessing the structural conditions of existing buildings constructed of combinations of material, including concrete, masonry, metals, and wood. E-book.

Describes the process for designing, conducting, and evaluating operations to suppress the formation of hail. E-book.

Provides direction for utilities as they design or retrofit their infrastructure to ensure the physical security of water and wastewater/stormwater systems. E-book.

Establishes guidelines for controlling accelerated erosion caused by human activities at construction sites. E-book.

Provides the latest methods for measuring the rate of oxygen transfer from diffused gas and mechanical oxygenation devices to water. Printed book, call number: 628.165 .M43 2007.

Describes the means for determining structural design loads including dead, live, soil, flood, tsunami, snow, rain, atmospheric ice, earthquake, wind, and fire, as well as how to assess load combinations. E-book.

Design, construction, and maintenance guidance for permeable interlocking concrete pavement (PICP) to achieve stormwater management goals while providing a structurally adequate pavement section to accommodate the anticipated vehicular loading in a cost-efficient manner. E-book.

Discusses the key parameters that underpin the provisions and illustrate the application of those provisions in both routine and nonroutine situations.

Presents guiding principles that can be used on construction projects to determine the impact of delays. E-book.

Presents the analytical framework to develop a risk-informed approach to the design of nuclear structures under earthquake motions. E-book.

Provides stringent criteria to ensure that nuclear facilities are designed to withstand the effects of earthquake ground shaking. E-book.

This standard uses displacement-based design methods to establish guidelines for the design of piers and wharves to withstand the effects of earthquakes. E-book.

Describes deficiency-based and systematic procedures that use performance-based principles to evaluate and retrofit existing buildings to withstand the effects of earthquakes. E-book.

Provides the state-of-the-art and best-practice for short-span, single and multi-lane bridge loading, dynamic allowance and long-span bridges.

Provides design criteria for the determination of the strength of stainless steel structural members and connections for use in buildings and other statically loaded structures. E-book.

Provides the most current and proven methods for calculating the fire resistance of selected structural members and barrier assemblies made from structural steel, plain concrete, reinforced concrete, timber and wood, concrete masonry, and clay masonry. Printed book, call number: 693.82 .S73 2007.

Covers the planning, design, materials, and construction for this trenchless method of installing pipelines. E-book.

Provides design provisions based on reliability theory for engineered wood structures. Printed book, call number: 624.184 .A5 1996.

Provides a thorough and up-to-date description of Managed Aquifer Recharge (MAR) projects. E-book.

Presents a credible system for classifying the quality of utility location information that is placed in design plans. Printed book, call number: 363.6 .S73 2003.

Covers such topics such as site analysis, system configuration, hydrology, hydraulic design, nonstructural considerations, structural design, and materials. E-book.

This single-volume set of three Standards establishes guidelines for design, installation, and operation and maintenance of urban subsurface drainage systems. E-book.

Addresses the direct design of precast concrete pipe that will be installed using jacking, a type of trenchless construction. E-book.

This updated standard describes the process through which supercooled fog dispersal operations should be designed, conducted, and evaluated, and includes new material dealing with recent technological improvements. E-book.

Provides requirements for the structural design, fabrication, and installation of cables for use as static structural elements to support and brace buildings and other cable-supported structures. E-book.

Establishes guidelines for developing appropriate pavement structures for various traffic and subgrade conditions. Printed book, call number: 625.84 .S77 2016.

Explains the key concepts in the provisions, including tsunami risk categories; inundation depth and flow velocities; structural design procedures; and hydrostatic, hydrodynamic, and debris impact loads.

A comprehensive overview of the wind load provisions.