Structural steel designers handbook fourth edition

by Roger Brockenbrough (Author), Frederick Merritt (Author)

Structural steel designers handbook presents and discusses the properties of structural steels that are of importance in design and construction.

Designers should be familiar with these properties so that they can select the most economical combination of suitable steels for each application and use the materials efficiently and safely.

In accordance with contemporary practice, the steels described in this chapter are given the names of the corresponding specifications of ASTM, 100 Barr Harbor Dr., West Conshohocken, PA 19428.

For example, all steels covered by ASTM A588, “Specification for High-Strength Low-Alloy Structural Steel,” are called A588 steel.

Most of them can also be furnished to a metric designation such as A588M.

Designers of steel-framed structures must be familiar with fabrication and erection practices to provide designs that are practical and cost efficient.

Awareness of the process and limits of routine practices will facilitate orderly construction of the project with a minimum of problems and lead to economical design.

In Structural steel designers handbook, the term connection is used in a general sense to include all types of joints in structural steel made with fasteners or welds.

Emphasis is placed on the more commonly used connections, such as shear connections, beam-to-column moment connections, and axial force connections including main-member splices, bracing connections, and truss connections.