1st Edition

Extreme Loading of Structures With a Focus on Earthquake Ground Motion

By Tim Huff Copyright 2025
216 Pages 98 B/W Illustrations
by CRC Press

216 Pages 98 B/W Illustrations
by CRC Press

216 Pages 98 B/W Illustrations
by CRC Press

Extreme Loading of Structures serves as a valuable resource for graduate studies or as a reference for practicing engineers and covers various topics, including tornado and tornado‑generated missiles, vehicular collision, vessel collision, blast, ice load, earthquake ground motion and more. While focusing mainly on extreme loadings, analytical procedures through which the effects of extreme... Read more

Chapter 1. Introduction

Chapter 2. Tornado and Tornado-Generated Missiles

Chapter 3. Vehicular Collision

Chapter 4. Vessel Collision

Chapter 5. Blast Loading

Chapter 6. Ice Loading

Chapter 7. Earthquake Ground Motion

Bibliography

Biography

Tim Huff has more than 35 years of experience as a practicing structural engineer. Dr. Huff has worked on building and bridge projects in the United States and has contributed to projects in India, Ethiopia, Brazil, the Philippines, and Haiti as a volunteer structural engineer with Engineering Ministries International. He is a faculty member of the Civil & Environmental Engineering Department at Tennessee Technological University in Cookeville, where he resides with his beautiful and talented wife, Monica, an artist and teacher.