Discover essential structural data and practical formulas for planning safe, solid builds.
This authoritative handbook compiles tables, rules, and unit-stress data for structural steel and related materials. It helps engineers, architects, builders, and mechanics design with confidence, using tested standards and practical guidance for safe loads, deflection, and bearing principles.
The included material covers safe loads for different beam types, hollow cast iron columns, box and plate girders, and other standard sections. It also provides methods, examples, and notes to apply the data accurately in real projects.
- Tables of safe loads for wooden beams and for steel beam box?girders and plate girders.
- Explanations of deflection limits, shear capacity, and bearing at supports.
- Data on hollow cast iron column strengths and methods to compute safe loads with factors of safety.
- Formulas and proportions for standard sections, rivets, joints, and related components.
Ideal for readers seeking a historical, reference-style source of structural table data and calculation methods.