The product is a textbook titled “Minimum Design Loads for Buildings and Other Structures” by the American Society of Civil Engineers. This third edition publication provides requirements for general structural design and includes means for determining various loads such as dead, live, soil, flood, snow, rain, atmospheric ice, earthquake, and wind. It offers a complete update and reorganization of the wind load provisions, expanding them from one chapter into six. The textbook is illustrated and contains new ultimate event wind maps with corresponding reductions in load factors. Additionally, it updates the seismic loads with new risk-targeted seismic maps and includes a detailed commentary for assistance in building code committees and regulatory authorities.

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