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industrial steel structures design guidance
i have been trying to locate specific design guidance on open frame industrial structures and haven't found much. i got the asce publication on wind loads and anchor bolt design which is very useful but nothing more. infuriatingly i find references all over the internet to another asce publication called seismic design of petrochemical structures (1997) but no-one including asce has it. does anyone know a) if it is useful and b) where i can get it. also any other useful publications?
what exactly is the steel frame supporting? if it's pipes/piping, you could look into asme b31.3, any other steel frame supports for building and non-building structures would be governed by current building code...asce 7-05...cbc 2007 (or ibc 2006)...aisc 13th edition, and the aisc seismic provisions will steel specific, the others will have the required loads and load combinations.
hope that helped, give me some more information and i might be able to direct you to another publication.
aisc has a publication design guide 7: industrial buildings--roofs to anchor rods (second edition)
could be worth a look.
pip standards will be good for you.
grrr! another bloody acronym! i didn't know gladys knight's backups did industrial structures.
hokie,
you're giving your age away (to those who know who glady's knight is).
process industry practices (pip)
don't forget to grab yourself an updated copy of the factory mutual criteria as they govern in several cases.
scott shields
ghafari associates, llc

i design industrial structures almost exclusively and the building code and referenced standards govern nearly all of the design requirements. however, it is sometimes challenging to apply the codes that are written for buildings to non-buidling structures. use your engineering judgement, get advice from your peirs, and be more conservative in industrial settings. asce 7 chapters 13 and 15 are of particular interest for seismic loads on non-building structures.
if you are doing tanks, monorails, crane support structures, stacks, etc., there are other specific codes to reference.
the seaoc seismic design manuals have a number of examples of industrial structures in them (if i remember correctly). though they obviously focus mostly on the seismic provisions as they relate to non-building.
josh

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