1st Edition

A Practical Course in Advanced Structural Design

By Tim Huff Copyright 2021
338 Pages 192 B/W Illustrations
by CRC Press

338 Pages 192 B/W Illustrations
by CRC Press

338 Pages 192 B/W Illustrations
by CRC Press

A Practical Course in Advanced Structural Design is written from the perspective of a practicing engineer, one with over 35 years of experience, now working in the academic world, who wishes to pass on lessons learned over the course of a structural engineering career. The book covers essential topics that will enable beginning structural engineers to gain an advanced understanding prior to... Read more

Chapter 1 Introduction

Chapter 2 Analysis Techniques for the Structural Engineer

Chapter 3 Building Design

Chapter 4 Bridge Design

Chapter 5 Design Ground Motions for Earthquake Engineering of Structures

Chapter 6 Problems for Solution

Appendix A: Hand Calculations for Example 2.3-1

Appendix B: Hand Calculations for Example 3.3-1

Appendix C: Hand Calculations for Example 3.5-2

Appendix D: Hand Calculations for Example 3.5-3

Appendix E: Hand Calculations for Example 4.2-1

Appendix F: Hand Calculations for Example 3.9-1

Bibliography

Index

Biography

Tim Huff has 35 years of experience as a practicing structural engineer. Dr. Huff has worked on building and bridge projects in the United States and has contributed to projects in India, Ethiopia, Brazil, the Philippines, and Haiti as a volunteer structural engineer with Engineering Ministries International. He is a faculty member of the Civil & Environmental Engineering Department at Tennessee Technological University in Cookeville, where he resides with his beautiful and talented wife, Monica, an artist and teacher.