Constructional Steelwork

Author : A. W. Farnsworth
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ISBN 13 : 9781332318551
Total Pages : 334 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (185 download)

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Download or read book Constructional Steelwork written by A. W. Farnsworth and published by . This book was released on 2015-08-05 with total page 334 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Constructional Steelwork: Being Notes on the Practical Aspect and the Principles of Design: Together With an Account of the Present Methods and Tools of Manufacture There are in this country some thousands of civil and mechanical engineers, architects, and surveyors who find they have, in increasingly numerous cases, to design and superintend erections involving in some form or other the employment of mild steelwork. A few years ago this material was seldom used except by railway companies. Government departments and a few consulting engineers; but with its adaptation to building and to the ordinary requirements of the smaller engineering enterprises, it has become imperative that every designer should know something about it. So far as its mere mathematics go, any educated man may easily, in a short time, extract sufficient from any of the many excellent text-books now published to assure himself that his ideas are theoretically beyond reproach, and that he has got a sufficient quantity of metal in the right places to ensure stability. He is, however, badly handicapped by his lack of practical knowledge. He does not know, of himself, the best practical dispositions to make for economy, and all unconsciously he wastes valuable time and money every time he shapes his ideas on paper. This is not his fault, but is due to the lack of opportunity hitherto to correct any notions he may have formed, by reference to some plain account of the essentials and modes of manufacture. d104-books cannot within their limits do more than merely skirt this question, although in reality it is quite as serious and worthy of earnest study as is pure theory. The present work is an effort to afford to designers generally an indication of what they should seek to embody in their creations; it is hoped that it may be also a handbook for those practically engaged in the trade. As the outcome of a series of articles appearing in Th Engineer between 1900 and the. present time, on various phases of modem steelwork design and practice, some of Part I. of the book will not be altogether new, although it has been entirely rewritten. Part II. has never previously appeared. The author desires to express his indebtedness to the editor of The Engineer for kind counsel and help. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.