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ARCH-4154: Advanced Building Structures II

Description: Study of highrise structures ranging from building slabs and blocks, terraced buildings, and skyscrapers to towers. The complexity of load action including wind, earthquake, and hidden loads. The effect of building height, form, and proportion on force action; considerations of stability and redundancy. Preliminary design of masonry buildings, core structures, suspension buildings, braced skeletons, rigid frames, interstitial systems, staggered truss buildings, tubes and hybrid structures.

Pathways: N/A

Course Hours: 3 credits

Prerequisites: ARCH-4076 and ARCH-4075

Required By: N/A

Corequisites: N/A

Crosslist: N/A

Repeatability: N/A

Sections Taught: 1

Average GPA: 3.72 (A)

Strict A Rate (No A-) : 42.86%

Average Withdrawal Rate: 28.57%

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