Designing With Structural Steel - A Guide For Architects 2nd Edition

The purpose of Designing With Structural Steel - A Guide For Architects 2nd Edition is to provide architects with the tools needed to feel more comfortable and confident working with structural steel in building projects. This newly updated Guide covers architectural issues, including design ideas, structural systems concepts, tolerances, coating systems, fire protection, thermal movement, exposed structures, bending and shaping of steel members, welding, design tables and representative dimensional information for beams and columns, tables of structural shapes in US standard and metric units and economical architectural details.