Simplified Design of Steel Structures, 8th Edition
ISBN: 978-0-470-08631-5
June 2007
480 pages
ISBN: 978-0-470-08631-5
June 2007
480 pages
Examining a wide range of steel structures, building types, and construction details, Simplified Design of Steel Structures, Eighth Edition is a reliable, easy-to-use handbook that covers all commonly used steel systems, practices, and research in the field, reinforced with examples of practical designs and general building structural systems.
The Eighth Edition of this leading book in the noted Parker/Ambrose Series of Simplified Design Guides has been updated to conform to current building codes, design practices, and industry standards. Featuring a wealth of illustrations, expanded text examples, exercise problems, and a helpful glossary, this outstanding tool:
Updated to conform with current building codes, design practices, and industry standards
Focuses on the widely used Load and Resistance Factor Design (LRFD) method for the first time
Uses the latest American Institute of Steel Construction (AISC) method of structural design
Includes Instructor's Manual for the first time
Provides fundamental and real-world coverage of steel structures that assumes no previous experience
The most effectively concise reference available on the design of steel structures
Examines a wide range of steel structures, building types, and construction details
Includes numerous illustrations as well as valuable study aids such as exercise problems, questions, and word lists to enhance usability
Covers Allowable Stress Design (ASD)
Describes new materials, examples of general building structural systems, and the use of computers in structural design
Part of the Parker/Ambrose Series of Simplified Design Guides. This series has been providing students with simple, concise solutions to common structural and environmental design problems for more than seven decades