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About Aluminum Design Manual
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Essential for all professionals who work with aluminum in structural applications, this comprehensive, up-
to-date resource includes:
Specification for Aluminum Structures - Allowable Stress Design Specification and Commentary: provides rules for determining the
strength of aluminum structural components and safety factors for aluminum building and bridge structures;
Specification for Aluminum Structures - Load and Resistance Factor Design Specification and Commentary: provides rules for
determining the strength of aluminum structural components and resistance factors for aluminum building structures;
Design Guide: additional discussion of the Specification for Aluminum Structures, as well as information on adhesive bonded joints,
sandwich panels and beams, extrusion design, corrosion prevention, fire protection, references, and other design codes for aluminum
structural components in automobiles, bridges, rail cars, ships, pressure vessels, pipe, and storage tanks;
Materials: alloy and temper designation systems for wrought and cast aluminum alloys; comparative characteristics of wrought alloys,
and foreign alloy designations correlated with U.S. alloy designations;
Material Properties: minimum strengths for wrought, cast, and welded aluminum alloys, minimum strengths for aluminum fastener
alloys, and typical mechanical and physical properties, including thermal expansion, electrical conductivity, and density (all in U.S. and
SI units);
Section Properties: Dimensions and sections properties for aluminum channels, I-beams, angles, tees, zees, square, rectangular and round
tube, pipe, and roofing and siding, as well as sheet metal and wire gauges;
Design Aids: Compressive strength curves, allowable stress tables for various alloys, allowable load tables for: channels and I-beams in
bending, tread plate, roofing and siding; fastener dimensions, and minimum bend radii for aluminum sheet and plate, wire, and rod;
Illustrative Design Examples: structural design example calculations based on the Specification for Aluminum Structures;
Guidelines for Aluminum Sheet Metal Work in Building Construction: for the use of aluminum in roofing and flashing; and
Index
Welded strengths
Adding 6063-T52, 6351-T6, and 7005-T53
Materials for screws used to connect aluminum parts
Factors on welded tensile ultimate strength and compressive yield strength
Welded connections (groove, fillet, plug and slot, and stud welds)
Screw pull-over
Revision of Section 1.2, Materials
Revision of Section 5, Mechanical Connections
Revision of Section 6, Fabrication and Erection
A new Section 8, Castings
Weighted average strengths
Design stresses for wind loads
Fatigue strength for welds with permanent backing
Net effective areas for channels, I beams, zees, angles, and tees
Single angles in flexure
Tapered thickness element strength
Shear yield strengths
Web crippling of extrusions
Compressive strength of complex cross sections
Strength of elements in bending in their own plane
Unbraced length in bending.