Product Description

The new edition of this textbook provides an introduction to the design of structural elements in concrete, steel, timber and masonry. It will be an ideal course text for students of civil and structural engineering.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #166110 in Books
• Published on: 2002-11-21
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 464 pages

Review

'A very comprehensive introduction to design which is useful for courses at all levels of the civil engineering degree course' - Mike Lovegrove, University of Southampton

'The presentation is clear and logical, with a minimum of straight text and an abundance of diagrams and examples worked out step-by-step...This title is recommended as a useful introduction and reference for academic, corporate engineering, and personal engineering libraries.' - e-Streams

'An invaluable book for design of structures ... excellent content, covering a range of materials.' - Lecturer, University of Warwick

From the Back Cover
The second edition of this popular textbook provides, in a single volume, an introduction to the design of structural elements in concrete, steel, timber and masonry.
Part One explains the principles and philosophy of design, basic techniques, and structural concepts. Designing in accordance with British Standard codes of practice follows in Part Two, with numerous diagrams and worked examples. In Part Three the Eurocodes are introduced, and their main differences to British codes are explained. Comprehensively revised and updated to comply with the latest British Standards and Eurocodes, the second edition also features a new section on the use and design of composite materials.
With an accompanying solutions manual available online, Design of Structural Elements is the ideal course text for students of civil and structural engineering, on degree, HNC and HND courses.

Customer Reviews

Essential reading
For those studying civ eng, this book will get you through your structural element design exams. As part of our core text at Loughborough, it was undoubtedly the most useful book we had. If you buy just one book for your civ eng course. this is the one you need.

A really helpfull guide for engineers and students
This is a book that represents not only the present, but also the future. The book is divided in two parts, the first part is an analysis of the latest British Standards (Concrete, Steel, Masonry and Timber with a reference to Wind Loads) including many solved examples. The second part is dedicated to the analysis of Eurocodes including examples on structural analysis of different materials (same as the first part)and various structural forms. The author have done a brilliant work in terms of the code's explaination, something that makes the book a unique guide for the students of Civil and Structural Engineering. However, it is poor in structural analysis of foundation members since it covers only the analysis of footing pads (no pilecap or pile analysis included).

Good book
this book is great if you need examples for design.it has concrete to ,steel ,masonry,composite and timber all of them to BS.then it has the same chapters but to Eurocodes.overall a very useful book for practice,not for theory.