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345 Solved Seismic Design Problems, 4th Edition

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I found this book very informative. All key information related to seismic principles and UBC seismic codes are well presented and easy to understand.

I highly recommend this book to all Civil Engineers. Also the other two books Mr. Baradar authored: Seismic Principles Practice Exams and Seismic Design of Building Structures should be on everyone's library.

I admit that learning seismic principles and UBC codes were the most difficult task in my civil engineering field. However, by studying this book in conjuction with Lindeburg and Baradar's Seismic Design of Building Structures, and using the other Baradar's book "seismic principles exams", I prepared myself for the CA Special Seismic Exam very well. Although I had no seismic background, these books assisted me to become a professional civil engineer by passing the seismic portion of the P.E. exam on the first try. I highly recommend this book as a must have book as a study aid.

This book is a must as a preparation tool for the Special Civil Engineering Seismic Exam. The book's Introduction covers the Seismic Principles Test Plan and it's broken down into chapters covering the different exam testing areas with plenty of practice problems within each chapter. This 3rd edition covers the 1994 UBC.

This book contains all the practice problems you need. Make sure you do all of the problems and understand the solutions. TIMING IS IMPORTANT. You gotta do the problems quick. YOU WILL pass the seismic test in one shot, I promise.

Excellent book. It has masterfully simplified the difficult concepts of the seismic engineering by structuring design problems with their solutions.

It receives five stars from me.

By solving all the introduced problems in this book and the other book by Mr. Baradar, I managed to pass the difficult seismic exam on my first attempt that many were skeptical.

This book surely helped me to master the areas of the seismic engineering needed for this highly talked exam. Many great reviews were passed to me regarding this book and I also recommend it here.

This is a great addition to a review course that I took. Although this was not the instructor's favorite book, I find it shows me my weak areas. It is well rounded and helps one realize nuances of Seismic terminology and calculations. It is set up so that one could break up the chapters and perform one's own Seismic Exams.

The first impression I had of the book was " I really have to do 345 problems? and is it worth my precious study time? The answers were yes and yes. The structure and thought that went into this book was perfectly in sync with the structure of the ASCE 7 and the Hiner study manual. My confidence was shot when I failed the Seismic exam twice. This book will slowly walk a novice through the detailed steps of solving seismic design problems. For the experienced structural designer, it is important to do every problem no matter how insignificant because after doing these problems it was amazing how much I was missing on the first 2 exams. I highly recommend this book in combination with the Hiner study manual, and the Sample exams from Majid Baradar.

-Anthony

With this book and a seismic reference book, I have become very familiar with the the seismic portion of the PE exam and feel prepared to take it with confidence.

Having taken the exam several times, I have an idea about how the problems on the exam look. This is a good book for learning the concepts, but the problems on the exam are more difficult and trickier. Expect to see all kinds of live loads for warehouses or partition loads in the seismic load and factors from load combinations as well as problems with non-building structures and mechanical equipment. The book covers these subjects but not very thoroughly.