steel design book - opinion
steel design book - opinion
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I am looking at adding a new, updated, in-depth steel design textbook to my library. Any opinions about this one?
Structural Steel Designer's Handbook, 5th edition
Roger L. Brockenbrough and
Frederick S. Merritt
Fully updated with the most recent design codes, standards, and specifications, this comprehensive book provides a convenient, single source of the latest information essential to the practical design of steel structures. Read more.
2011, McGraw-Hill & ASCE Press | Hard cover, 960 pp.
ISBN 978-0-0716-6666-4
List $175, ASCE Member $131.25
Structural Steel Designer's Handbook, 5th edition
Roger L. Brockenbrough and
Frederick S. Merritt
Fully updated with the most recent design codes, standards, and specifications, this comprehensive book provides a convenient, single source of the latest information essential to the practical design of steel structures. Read more.
2011, McGraw-Hill & ASCE Press | Hard cover, 960 pp.
ISBN 978-0-0716-6666-4
List $175, ASCE Member $131.25






RE: steel design book - opinion
RE: steel design book - opinion
RE: steel design book - opinion
Unified Design of Steel Structures
Louis F. Geschwindner
$25 used, $35 new on Amazon
This book does is great in that it goes step-by-step thru designs using the 13th edition AISC.
I have not seen the Structural Steel Designer's Handbook, 5th edition. It may be good too.
RE: steel design book - opinion
Unified Design of Steel Structures is much better in many ways.
RE: steel design book - opinion
i wouldnt say latest aisc though coz 14th is coming soon.. ahaha
these codes keeps updating $$$$$
RE: steel design book - opinion
I am not worried about the new AISC spec. Nothing I am doing is going to fall down because of a new code ;) Looking for a comprehensive steel design book that deals with the major and some minor concepts. I am not unhappy with AISC I just need a supplement that gives me some more background and explanation, and fills in some gaps.
RE: steel design book - opinion
My comments above do not address the difference in cost, just content.
RE: steel design book - opinion
RE: steel design book - opinion
S&J for steel
Still have my old Wang and Salmon for concrete...pretty much useless now except for failure investigations
RE: steel design book - opinion
RE: steel design book - opinion
I really debated writing that (I actually learned steel in school with the green book, and that was in 2005, believe it or not!). I only called it "old time ASD", since the new ASD is really LRFD at Halloween.
In terms of use in practice, I have probably used Blodgett more than any other text, but it's really been for some unique welded connections and designing stitch welds of plates to WF sections to for a closed section, BUT S&J is still the most complete and in-depth text for steel design, in my opinion.
RE: steel design book - opinion
RE: steel design book - opinion