- Author
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Cunningham, L. K.
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Melin, J. W.
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Tavis, R. L.
- Title
- Detailed Application of a Technology for the Formulation and Expression of Standards Applied to the American National Standard Building Code Requirements for Minimum Design Loads in Buildings and Other Structures (ANSI A58.1-1972). Civil Engineering Studies. Final.
- Coporate
- Illinois Univ. at Urbana-Champaign, Savory
- Sponsor
- National Bureau of Standards, Washington, DC
- Report
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NBS GCR 78-123; STRUCTURAL RESEARCH SER-446; UILU-ENG-78-2003
January 1978
- Distribution
- Available from National Technical Information Service
- Contract
- NBS-6-13980
- Keywords
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building codes; design standards; technology assessment; network analysis (management); decision theory; dynamic loads; specifications
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decision theory
- Identifiers
- information processing; information networks; design loads
- Abstract
- This investigation applies decision-table and information-network technology in the analysis of the American National Standard Building Code Requirements for Minimum Design Loads in Building and Other Structures (ANSI A58.1-1972). Part I summarizes the logic and technology available for decision-table and information-network analysis. It also sets down a rationale for the attempt to apply this logic at the requisite level of detail and develops the concepts, policies, and procedures that enable such application. Part II applies the available technology to the ANSI Standard, and in a detailed commentary on each decision table and on the information network, sets down the questions raised by the analysis of each. General questions about the ANSI Standard, classification of data, and potential application of these methods in the expression of standards follow. The analysis concludes by testing the validity of its proposition in the overall findings of the work.