Understanding Steel Design

Download or read book Understanding Steel Construction written by Terri Meyer Boake and published by Birkhäuser. This book was released on 2011-07-29 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Understanding Steel Design' is a comprehensive and highly visual manual on the fundamentals of designing and constructing with steel, based on the analysis of hundreds of steel buildings. The basis of the idea behind this book lies in a firm belief in the benefits of recognizing the intrinsic connection between the characteristics of materials and the design of buildings. The broad spectrum of case studies provides systematic instruction in established and specialized construction methods and in combining techniques to develop new solutions in steel construction.