Practical guidance for building strong, safe steel structures.
This book walks you through the essentials of designing and detailing simple steel work, with a focus on riveted connections, stresses, and practical estimates. It combines theory with applications in roofs, plate girders, and pin‑connected bridges to help readers translate concepts into real world results.
- Learn how rivets are selected, holes prepared, and joints designed to carry loads
- See step‑by‑step approaches to designing members, calculating stresses, and preparing stress sheets
- Explore shop drawings, detailing at joints, and methods to avoid eccentric stresses
- Get practical guidance on estimating weights, materials, and costs for different types of steel work
Ideal for readers of engineering handbooks and practitioners needing clear, case‑grounded instruction on steel structures and their connections.
TAYLOR MORRIS is the author of the Hello, Gorgeous! series and the Aladdin Mix titles Class Favorite and Total Knockout. She lives in New York City with her orchestra conductor husband, Silas, and their two cats, who have hyphenated last names. She thinks that having a fight with a best friend is one of the worst things a girl can go through. Tell her about your BFF woes at www.taylormorris.com