McEngr,
if you are preparing for SE 2 - I would recommend to buy 'seismic and wind design by Alan William (kaplan). I used this book and found very useful for my prep.
it covers slenderwall design for masonry, it has all masonry stuffs in SD- not good from exam point where you need ASD. But...
PE vs SE after name :
If a person passed SE II, can he writes S.E. after his name irrespective of state ? My assumption is the state should have structural engieering title act rules enfrorced.
that means a person in AZ can write SE and one in KC can't write?
I would appreciate if some one...
ARLORD -It seems that you are heading towards California.
My question to all you guys is : which states require Civil as a must?
Any help will be appreciated.
Jennifer,
You probably wanna keep all your SE 1 books except bridge if you are taking Bldg on SE II.
I would add: Civil and structural engineering: seismic design of building and bridges by Allan williams to the list by ARLORD and Bigwolf.
Good Luck.
I used Kaplan book for civil eng PE in addition to SERM. I heard bridge book by Kim Kim is good , but I think it is based on old code. Because 20% questions will be from Bridge section, you have to study more.
My understanding is allowable stress reduction provision based on inspections are not in recent codes( 2002 and later)- so don't worry about it anymore.
Yes, that's true. ASCE 12.7.2 is about effective seismic weight not about load combination.
To add- according to IBC ASD Load combo you can ignore snow load if less than 30 psf. I don't see such provision on LRFD combo- dont know why.
Anyway, anybody know which chapter it is for "plate girder" in new 13th edition steel code? The old code has a distinguish chapter for that. But I haven't found it on new code. Thank you.