Thesis Research:

ACI 318-08. Farmington Hills, MI: American Concrete Institute, 2009.  ("ACI 318-08" 2009)

• American Concrete Institute publishes this code to provide requirements for structural concrete design.  Discussions on torsional compatibility, stud rails, and combined lateral and gravity loads were followed for this thesis analysis

ASCE 7-05. Reston, VA: American Society of Civil Engineers, 2006. (“ASCE7-05” 2006)

• American Society of Civil Engineers writes these standards to provide information on a variety of structural loading cases.  Seeing as seismic does not control for NCHTNF, wind is the only load case ASCE7-05 is able to provide information for.

Choi, Jung-Wook, Chul-Soo Kim, Jin-Gyu Song, and Soo-Gon Lee. "Effective Beam Width Coefficients for Lateral Stiffness in Flat-Plate Structures." KCI Concrete Journal, July 2001. http://www.ceric.net/wonmun2/kci/KCI_3_2001_13_2_49(C).pdf (accessed January 20, 2012). (Choi et al. 2001)

• An article providing an opinion on using effective beam width coefficients for flat-plate system design and analysis.  Details on modeling and analysis are presented with minimal theory.

"CSI Analysis Reference Manual For SAP2000, ETABS, and SAFE." Computers & Structures Inc., June 2008. http://www.comp-engineering.com/downloads/manuals/SAFE/SafeManuals/CSI Analysis Reference.pdf (accessed March 17, 2012). ("CSI Analysis Reference Manual For SAP2000, ETABS, and SAFE" 2008)

• Computers & Structures Inc. provides a detailed guide explaining all the nuances to modeling buildings in analysis programs.  For this thesis report, the sections concerning joints and link elements were studied.

Han, S. Whan, Y.-M. Park, and J. Oak Cho. "Effective beam width for flat plate frames having edge beams." Magazine of Concrete Research, November 2010. http://earthquake.hanyang.ac.kr/submenu/pdf/journal/[2010]_Han_Effective beam width for flat plate frames having edge beams.pdf (accessed March 17, 2012).  (Han et al. 2010)

• The academic article explained  how the equivalent frame method  is not accurate when analyzing a flat plate system with edge beams.  The authors then propose the equivalent beam width method  to use when analyzing this situation.

Houser, Kevin. “AE 497D Daylighting Analysis.” Rome. June 15, 2011. (Houser 2011)

• This lecture was given by Dr. Kevin Houser, Architectural Engineering Professor at Penn State, during a study abroad class in Rome, Italy.  His lecture detailed how to calculate sun angles geometrically along with the Excel spreadsheet developed throughout the class.

Leet, Kenneth, Chia-Ming Uang, and Anne Gilbert. Fundamentals of Structural Analysis, (New York: McGraw Hill, 2008), 638-643. (Leet et al. 2008)

• The textbook gives a description of the theory behind the portal frame method.  A complete example is provided, which was followed for the portal method analysis in this thesis analysis.

Lutron Electronics, Inc., "Lutron." Last modified 2012. Accessed March 14, 2012. http://www.lutron.com/Pages/Default.aspx.  ("Lutron" 2012)

• Lutron’s website provided valuable information concerning “smart” sun shading devices.  They also presented information concerning energy savings when utilizing their products effectively.

The Southeast Regional Climate Center, “Maximum Wind Speed (mph) for Selected Cities in the Southeast.” Accessed March 20, 2012. http://www.sercc.com/climateinfo/historial/maxwind.html . (“Maximum Wind Speed (mph) for Selected Cities in the Southeast”

• SERCC provides the maximum wind speeds for selected cities in the Southeast United States.  Most of their data has been gathered for at least 20 years. 

Wight, James and James MacGregor, Reinforced Concrete Mechanics & Design, (Upper Saddle, NJ: Pearson Prentice Hall, 2008), 641-731.  (Wight et al. 2008)

• This book explains the theory behind design and analysis of two-way slabs. The structural depth of this thesis followed the Equivalent Frame Method along with combined lateral and gravity design methods outlined in the textbook.

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