Shear & Moment Diagrams Book?

[Archie264]

Does such a thing exist? It seems I've heard of such, perhaps written by some Indian engineers (Endian ingineers?), if memory serves. But I've never seen such a thing. I'm referring to a book that might contain page after page of shear & moment diagrams covering more conditions than listed in the steel and wood manuals, which, admittedly, cover 99% of situations likely to be encountered.

I guess in this computer age such a thing might be passe but it'd still be a neat resource to have, provided it wasn't too expensive. Thanks.

 

[JStephen]

Roark's Formulas for Stress and Strain covers a wider range than the AISC ASD 9th Edition beam tables, not necessarily diagrams, just formulas for different loading conditions.

 

[msquared48]

Kleinlogel for frames, and probably other things too.

Mike McCann, PE, SE (WA)

 

[Archie264]

Wow, that was fast. Thanks! I've heard of Roark's book but never seen it. I'll look for that and Kleinlogel's as well.

 

[IDS]

Also "Formulas for stress, strain, and structural matrices" by Pilkey (although that doesn't seem to satisfy the "not too expensive" criterion now)

Doug Jenkins
Interactive Design Services

http://newtonexcelbach.wordpress.com/

 

[dhengr]

Archie264:
You can’t be an engineer if you don’t have a copy of one of Roark’s books. It’s a really good ref. on many different engineering problems, and has some pretty good lists of original ref. materials at the ends of chapters. There are also lots of people pretending to be engineers just because they have a copy of Roark’s book, and not having the vaguest idea what they are doing otherwise.

 

[Hokie93]

Two additional sources of shear and bending moment diagrams that include a few cases not covered by the AISC Steel Construction Manual are "Design of Welded Structures" by Blodgett and the PCI Handbook. The Blodgett book is available from the James F. Lincoln Arc Welding Foundation and it is very affordable (like $20 or $25). My copy was $15 if memory serves me correctly. The PCI Handbook is quite expensive, especially if you are not a member, and likely not worth the cost if you are only interested in the loading diagrams.

 

[CELinOttawa]

Structural Engineering Formulas by Ilya Mikhelson

Though I hate that it is not called "formulae".

 

[Archie264]

You can’t be an good engineer if you don’t have a copy of one of Roark’s books.

Dhengr, there, I corrected if for you. To which I respond, no problem, I never claimed to be that in the first place.

Hokie93, I've got Blodgett's book and sure enough, there they are in the back of it. But it does seem to be a limited sampling of them. Regardless, Blodgett's books remains one of the best buys out there...

...and ditto, apparently, is the one by Mikhelson. It's quite affordable. Or affordablae, perhaps I should write.

Thanks, all.

 

[BUGGAR]

Kleinlogel - better than a computer. Frames mostly.