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Structural Design, Volume I: Elements of Structural Design — a practical guide for students and draftsmen This authoritative text presents the core materials, shapes, and design methods used in building structures. It emphasizes a clear, orthodox approach and shows how fundamentals of mechanics and materials translate into real-world design. The book covers timber and early steel concepts, shop practice, joints, and the essentials needed to understand load paths and safe design.
This edition frames design as a practical sequence: from the properties of materials to the selection of commercial shapes, through fabrication, connections, and final detailing. It also explains how local standards and company practices influence calculations, while providing data useful for learning and early practice before local codes and specifics take over.
- Foundations of timber strength, defects, and preservation, plus material behavior along and across the grain.
- Commercial shapes and basic members for wood, cast iron, wrought iron, and early steels.
- Design considerations for beams, trusses, and frame connections, including joints, rivets, and reinforcements.
- Practical guidance on shop organization, fabrication processes, erection, and project layout.
Ideal for readers starting in structural design who need a solid, reference-style primer that blends theory with practical, verifiable data.
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Excerpt from Structural Design Elements of Structural Design, Vol. 1
IT might be well to say here what is repeated in the text that this work presupposes a knowledge of mechanics, stresses, and the mathematics on which they depend.
The experience of the author in teaching and in practice has led him to believe that no available book presents all structural subjects so concisely that they can be covered in the time usually allotted by technical schools. Moreover, the fundamental principles of shop practice and erection, which govern the designer at every step, are not clearly developed. These faults the author has attempted to correct, using only orthodox methods of presentation.
This volume considers wooden structures and the fundamental principles of design in steel. Should this work receive recognition, it is intended to follow it by a second volume on the Design of Simple Structures, plate girders, viaducts, truss bridges, mill buildings, high office buildings, and standpipes, and a third on the Design of Advanced Structures, cantilever, movable, and suspension bridges and arches. It has been thought best for the present to omit the data usually found in handbooks.
As a considerable portion of this treatise is original data, corrections and suggestions will be especially welcome. How ever, a great deal of pains has been taken to eliminate errors.
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The experience of the author in teaching and in practice has led him to believe that no available book presents all structural subjects so concisely that they can be covered in the time usually allotted by technical schools. Moreover, the fundamental principles of shop practice and erection, which govern the designer at every step, are not clearly developed. These faults the author has attempted to correct, using only orthodox methods of presentation. This volume considers wooden structures and the fundamental principles of design in steel. Should this work receive recognition, it is intended to follow it by a second volume on the Design of Simple Structures, plate girders, viaducts, truss bridges, mill buildings, high office buildings, and standpipes, and a third on the Design of Advanced Structures, cantilever, movable, and suspension bridges and arches. It has been thought best for the present to omit the data usually found in handbooks. As a considerable portion of this treatise is original data, corrections and suggestions will be especially welcome. However, a great deal of pains has been taken to eliminate errors. The writer wishes at this time to acknowledge his references. These include almost every American authority on the subject. Many of them have been referred to at the proper place in the book. Particular mention should be made of the Engineering News, Engineering Record, and Transactions of the American Society of Civil Engineers.
(Typographical errors above are due to OCR software and don't occur in the book.)
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