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Essential books for structural engineers, case studies/design examples

Essential books for structural engineers, case studies/design examples

Essential books for structural engineers, case studies/design examples

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Please list down the essential books that every structural engineer should own...also, does anyone have any references (books, websites, documents) that go through design examples of various structures (i.e. case studies), such as the following link:

www.hnd.usace.army.mil/techinfo/ti/809-04/prh-4a.pdf

RE: Essential books for structural engineers, case studies/design examples

A great site for many out of date publications:
http://www.slideruleera.net/

Bridge design examples using LRFD:
http://bridges.transportation.org/?siteid=34&pageid=339

Free publications from AISC:
http://www.aisc.org/Content/NavigationMenu/ePubs/freePubs1/freePubs_Home.htm

A lot of free downloads for geotechnical and marine engineering:
http://vulcanhammer.net/

If you're into old engineering books - and I mean old - 19th & early 20th Century:
http://books.google.com

RE: Essential books for structural engineers, case studies/design examples

"Why Buildings Fall Down", Levy and Salvadori

RE: Essential books for structural engineers, case studies/design examples

Should you read "Why Buildings Stand Up" first?

RE: Essential books for structural engineers, case studies/design examples

Yes, but there are plenty of books to make buildings stand "up", but not too many about failures.  Learning about failures is a good way of preventing them.

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