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(More customer reviews)I own the 1990 edition of this book. It claims its a design manual, but yet I cant find the info i need. any info is usually refered to external sources and papers. It more or less follows the format of "for treatment of such and such a case please refer to this book or that paper" What if I dont have or unable to find or buy those materials? Come on! as a manual, it is supposed to provide me with that information and whatever extra tables or formulae which the code does not have, not tell me to get extra books or papers! I did not pay such a high price to get a signpost for information! If that were the case I might as well have a bookcase FULL of all kinds of specialist books and Engng Papers just to get that particular piece of info here or there etc and most of which I might never use again in my lifetime! It never explained how openings in steel webs should be treated or checked, the treatment of torsion was a short paragraph, the design of vierendeel girders was 2 short paragraphs & not a single formulae or worked example of such things were included.... In the end i was none the wiser. Dont expect BS5950 to provide everything in so much detail. The book is supposed to complement the code. In this respect it had failed in its purpose as a manual.
If you want to see how a manual should be look at Reynold's RC designer's manual. Now THAT is what i call a manual. Graphs of all kinds, extra formulae, tables of all kinds, concise presentation of theory not covered by most texts, worked examples. Every thing you ever wanted to know abt RC design!
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This classic manual on structural steel design provides a major source of reference for structural engineers and fabricators working with the leading construction material. Based fully on the concepts of limit state design, the manual has been revised to take account of the 2000 revisions to BS 5950. It also looks at new developments in structural steel, environmental issues and outlines the main requirements of the Eurocode on structural steel.
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