One of few titles to deal with structural design for all the main materials. Illustrations are clear and visually telling. The first edition replaced a well-known, long-established very successful textbook, Morgan's Students Structural Handbook. This textbook presents the student with a step-by-step guide to the basic procedures for the structural design of the most commonly used structural design of the most commonly used structural elements, including beams, slabs and columns and retaining walls. It replaces the well-known third edition of Morgan's 'Students Structural Handbook' and is written in terms of limit state design.
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B. G. Fletcher is Head of the Department of Construction at Waltham Forest College, London.
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