Steel Structures

Steel Structures
Practical design studies
Second edition

T.J.MacGinley
Formerly Associate Professor
Nanyang Technological University
Singapore

E & FN SPON
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Second edition 1998
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 Contents

Preface xi
Preface to First Edition xii
Acknowledgements xiii

1 Steel structures—structural engineering 1

1.1 Need for and use of structures 1
1.2 Structural materials—types and uses 1
1.3 Types of structures 2
1.3.1 General types of structures 2
1.3.2 Steel structures 3
1.4 Foundations 4
1.5 Structural engineering 4
1.5.1 Scope of structural engineering 4
1.5.2 Structural designer’s work 5
1.6 Conceptual design, innovation and planning 7
1.7 Comparative design and optimization 8
1.7.1 General considerations 8
1.7.2 Aims and factors considered in design comparison 8
1.7.3 Specific basis of comparisons for common structures 9
1.8 Load paths, structural idealization and modelling 11
1.8.1 Load paths 11
1.8.2 Structural idealization 12
1.8.3 Modelling 12
1.9 Drawings, specifications and quantities 12
1.9.1 Steelwork drawings 12
1.9.2 Specification 13
1.9.3 Quantities 15
1.10 Fabrication 15
1.11 Transport and erection 16
2 Structural steel design 17
2.1 Design theories 17
2.1.1 Development of design 17