Australia - Structural Engineering design guides/manuals/pocket books for practising engineers

[JM_EH6]

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

 

[IDS]

In general, make sure you get a copy of the commentary or supplement to any Australian Standard you are working with (where available). They contain a lot of useful information.

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
Interactive Design Services

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[Agent666]

In terms of steel design these are good resources to get the basics
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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.

 

[Ingenuity]

There is some free technical info at the Post-Tensioning Insitute of Australia.