Australia - Structural Engineering design guides/manuals/pocket books for practising engineers
Australia - Structural Engineering design guides/manuals/pocket books for practising engineers
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Hi,
I am relocating from the UK to Australia to continue to work as a Structural Engineer and am looking for guidance on some good industry design guides and technical advice similar to Fiona Cobbs' 'Pocket Book' or the 'Structural Elements Design Manual - Working to Eurocodes' - anything along those lines, though with reference to Australian Standards rather than BS/EN codes.
Is anyone aware of any useful documents out there that being used in the industry at the moment?
Thanks
I am relocating from the UK to Australia to continue to work as a Structural Engineer and am looking for guidance on some good industry design guides and technical advice similar to Fiona Cobbs' 'Pocket Book' or the 'Structural Elements Design Manual - Working to Eurocodes' - anything along those lines, though with reference to Australian Standards rather than BS/EN codes.
Is anyone aware of any useful documents out there that being used in the industry at the moment?
Thanks






RE: Australia - Structural Engineering design guides/manuals/pocket books for practising engineers
Specifically related to concrete.
Join the Concrete Institute of Australia. They have many documents available for free download to members, including a reinforced concrete detailing manual. They also have a good deal on accessing on-line copies of Australian Standards, and free access to the FIB library of documents (although that's obviously not Australia related). Also all the state capitals have regular technical events. I should mention I'm on the Concrete Institute board, so I may be a bit biased.
Other industry body web-sites also have information, such as CCAA.
There are several text books written by Australian academics which would be worth getting. Two that I have that I can recommend are Concrete Structures by Warner, Rangan, Hall and Faulkes, and Time Dependent Behaviour of Concrete Structures by Gilbert and Ranzi.
Doug Jenkins
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RE: Australia - Structural Engineering design guides/manuals/pocket books for practising engineers
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Australian Steel Institute also has many other good resources. Unfortunately not much free stuff, but many well worth the cost.
Standards Australia also do a handbook on concrete design. Don't have it but would imagine it covers design examples to As3600.
RE: Australia - Structural Engineering design guides/manuals/pocket books for practising engineers