This text brings modern engineering design and analysis techniques to the development of single-ply roof systems, thereby taking the guesswork out of single-ply roof systems and ultimately reducing the overall roof costs to the owner. The new theories and applications developed in this text include: coverage of the material properties of single-ply membranes, basic design criteria of single-ply roofs developed from field case studies, basic concepts on the effects of rooftop wind, data on wind-related pressures on flat roofs, data on roof insulations and their impact on energy consumption.
