Structural Steel Design: A Practice-Oriented Approach

This book is a comprehensive, stand alone reference for structural steel design. Giving the audience a thorough introduction to steel structures, this book contains all of the need to know information on practical design considerations in the design of steel buildings. It includes complete coverage of design methods, load combinations, gravity loads, lateral loads and systems in steel buildings, and much more.

Abi Aghayere, Ph.D., PE is a professor at the Rochester Institute of Technology and co-author of two other textbooks in the field of structural engineering. He is the winner of RIT’s Eisenhart Award for Outstanding Teaching, 2004-05, and a 2003 Best Paper Award from the American Society for Engineering Education. He has over twenty years experience in the analysis and design of a wide variety of building structures in Canada and the United States.

 

Jason Vigil, PE is a structural engineering consultant in Rochester, NY and is an adjunct professor at the Rochester Institute of Technology.  He is also the co-author of Structural Wood Design: A Practice Oriented Approach.