3rd Edition
Principles of Structural Design Wood, Steel, and Concrete, Third Edition
1. Design Criteria
2. Primary Loads: Dead Loads and Live Loads
3. Snow Loads
4. Wind Loads
5. Earthquake Loads
6. Wood Specifications
7. Flexure and Axially Loaded Wood Structures
8. Wood Connections
9. Tension Steel Members
10. Compression Steel Members
11. Flexural Steel Members
12. Combined Forces on Steel Members
13. Steel Connections
14. Flexural Reinforced Concrete Members
15. Doubly and T-Shaped Reinforced Concrete Beams
16. Shear and Torsion in Reinforced Concrete
17. Compression and Combined Forces in Reinforced Concrete Members
18. Pre-Stressed Concrete Structures
19. Application of Simulations in Structural Design
Biography
Ram S. Gupta, PhD, earned a master’s in engineering at the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Roorkee, India, and a PhD at Polytechnic University, New York. He is a registered professional engineer in Rhode Island and Massachusetts. Dr. Gupta is president of Delta Engineers Inc., a Rhode Island-based consulting company. He is the author of numerous research papers and three textbooks. Dr. Gupta is professor emeritus at Roger Williams University (RWU), Bristol, Rhode Island.
