Agenda

Registration:                        8:00 – 8:30 am

Morning Session:                8:30 – 11:45 am

Lunch (On your own):         11:45 am – 12:45 pm

Afternoon Session:             12:45 – 5:00 pm

Understanding Structural Loads

Types of structural loads
Classifying buildings and structures
Load path and structural systems
Importance factor and occupancy category

Dead Loads, Soil Loads and Hydrostatic Pressure

Weight of materials and structure
Soil loads and hydrostatic pressure

Live Loads

Distributed and concentrated loads
Live load reduction
Uniformly-distributed loads
Concentrated loads
Required live loads
Impact loads

Flood Loads

Hydrostatic and hydrodynamic loads
Loads on breakaway walls

Snow Loads

Ground snow loads in Alaska
Flat roof snow loads
Unbalanced, drifting and sliding loads

Wind Loads

Wind speed, importance factor, exposure, enclosure classifications
Allowed procedures (methods 1, 2 and 3)
Main wind force resisting system vs. components and cladding

Earthquake Loads

Introduction to seismic design philosophy
Seismic ground motion values and geotechnical investigation
Seismic design category
Base shear and load distribution
Design criteria for bearing walls and building frame systems

Credits

Architects
7.0 HSW PDHs
7.0 AIA HSW Learning Units

Professional Engineers
7.0 HSW PDHs

International Code Council
.7 CEUs (Building)

Continuing Education Credit Information

This seminar is open to the public and offers 7.0 HSW PDHs to engineers and architects in all states, except Florida architects. Educators and courses are not subject to preapproval in Alaska.

This course is approved by the American Institute of Architects for 7.0 HSW Learning Units (Sponsor No. J885). Only full attendance can be reported to the AIA/CES.

HalfMoon Education is deemed an approved architect continuing education sponsor in New York. HalfMoon Education is an approved continuing education sponsor for engineers in Florida, Louisiana, Maryland, New Jersey, New York (NYSED Sponsor No. 35), North Carolina, and North Dakota.

The International Code Council has approved this event for .7 CEUs in the specialty area of Building.

Attendance will be monitored, and attendance certificates will be available after the seminar for most individuals who complete the entire event. Attendance certificates not available at the seminar will be mailed to participants within fifteen business days.

Speakers

Scott Hamel, P.E., Ph.D.

Professor and Chair, University of Alaska Anchorage

Originally from New Hampshire, Dr. Hamel completed a B.S. degree in Civil Engineering at Worcester Polytechnic Institute in Massachusetts and a master’s degree in Civil Engineering with an emphasis in structures at the University of Colorado at Boulder. Between degrees he worked as a bridge inspector, roadway designer, and bridge engineer in Boston and as a structural engineer in Denver designing hospitals, museums, and courthouses. After earning his license as a professional engineer in Colorado, he returned to school and completed his doctorate in Structural Engineering at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Dr. Hamel’s research was located at the USDA Forest Products Laboratory in Madison and included a three-year long creep study of wood-plastic composites (WPCs). Dr. Hamel joined the faculty at the University of Alaska Anchorage in 2011, where his current research includes the performance of plywood/polyurethane structural insulated panels (SIPs), the strength of accreted ice on piles at the Port of Alaska, and a reliability analysis of flawed wood-frame structures during seismic events. At UAA, he teaches undergraduate courses in mechanics, structural analysis and steel design, and graduate-level courses that cover loads on structures, structural reliability, advanced structural analysis, finite-element analysis, and advanced steel design.

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