Aiming to cover all variations of staircase design in a clear, condensed manner, this book is split into different areas of specification, traditional and modern methods of construction, and comparative design analysis and structural detailing.
In no other structural systemare extreme loads such as tornadoes, missile and loud interaction, earthquakeeffects typical in excess of any recorded historical data at a site, and postulatedsystem accident at very low probability range explicitly, considered in design.