Steel designers manual 6th Edition
by The Steel Construction Institute (Author)

Steel designers 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.

Steel designers manual also looks at new developments in structural steel, environmental issues and outlines the main requirements of the Eurocode on structural steel.

At the instigation of the Iron and Steel Federation, the late Bernard Godfrey began work in 1952 on the first edition of the Steel Designers’ Manual.

As principal author he worked on the manuscript almost continuously for a period of two years.

On many Friday evenings he would meet with his co-authors, Charles Gray, Lewis Kent and W.E. Mitchell to review progress and resolve outstanding technical problems.

A remarkable book emerged. Within approximately 900 pages it was possible for the steel designer to find everything necessary to carry out the detailed design of most conventional steelwork.

Although not intended as an analytical treatise, the book contained the best summary of methods of analysis then available.

The standard solutions, influence lines and formulae for frames could be used by the ingenious designer to disentangle the analysis of the most complex structure.

Information on element design was intermingled with guidance on the design of both overall structures and connections. It was a book to dip into rather than read from cover to cover.

However well one thought one knew its contents, it was amazing how often a further reading would give some useful insight into current problems.

Readers forgave its idiosyncrasies, especially in the order of presentation.