Essential books for structural engineers, case studies/design examples

[stuctural101]

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:

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

 

[bridgebuster]

A great site for many out of date publications: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

 

[cvg]

USACE Engineering Manuals

http://www.usace.army.mil/publications/eng-manuals/em.htm

 

[hokie66]

"Why Buildings Fall Down", Levy and Salvadori

 

[abusementpark]

Should you read "Why Buildings Stand Up" first?

 

[hokie66]

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.