Book reviews
STEEL S T R U C T U R E S - D E S I G N A N D
BEHAVIOUR
Second Edition
by Charles G. Salmon and John E. Johnson
Harper and Row Publishers, New York, 1980, 1007
pages, £9.95 hardback
The first edition of this textbook of steel design was
published in 1971. Recent changes in the design
requirements for structural steel, in particular the
publication of the 1978 AISC Specification and the
Manual of Steel Construction (Eighth Edition) pub
hshed by the AISC in 1980 prompted this second
edition.
The book covers the background material relevant to
steel design including references to pertinent research,
the development of specific AISC specification for-
mulae, and also includes a generous number of design
examples.
The book has been aimed both at the beginner and
advanced designer/student including emphasis on
elastic and inelastic stability concepts. The change to
ultimate strength philosophy reflectcd in Part 2 of the
AISC specification gives rise to many of the changes in
this volume. Working stress and plastic design con-
cepts are treated separately and the book ts therefore
widely applicable to most European countries.
While the background of the AISC Specification
makes the work most relevant to the USA, the
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Do~llng, Department of Civil Engineering, Imperial College, London SW7 2BU, England.
considerable background knowledge contained in the
volume makes it extremely useful for steelwork
designers elsewhere in the world. Both presentation and
content are excellent and every aspect of building
design includmg connections, columns, plates, beams
and frames is covered in detail.
BACKGROUND TO BUCKLING
by Fl. G. Allen and P. S. Bulson
McGraw-}iill Book Company (UK) Limited, 1980,
582 pages, £ 16.95 hardback
This book reviews analytical methods for studying the
stability of struts, frame works, plates, girders, shells,
and arches, it presents a coherent account of the
buckling problem from basic principles to methods of
analysis and results of the latest research.
It also links the results of recent research with UK,
European and American codes of practice and should
therefore be of interest not only to researchers m these
various fields but to designers of a wide variety of
structures
The book is well written and thorough in its
approach and forms an invaluable aid in bridging the
gaps between research, analysis and design.
Tile reviewer thoroughly recommends the volume to
all those concerned with the analysts or design of
componcnts subjected to buckling.