Guide to Stability Design Criteria for Metal Structures, Hardcover by Ziemian, Ronald D. (EDT), ISBN 0470085258, ISBN-13 9780470085257, Brand New, Free P&P in the UK

The 1960 first edition emerged from the efforts of the Column Research Council to provide findings of research on the behavior of metal under compression to engineers and writers of design specifications, codes, and standards. Over the half century since then, the Council has become the Structural Stability Research Council, and the research, construction and design practices, and even the materials have changed considerably. But about once every decade, this comprehensive handbook has been revised and updated to incorporate the most recent developments. This sixth edition, characterized as an evolutionary extension, expands and rewrites most of the chapters by dropping the one on dynamic stability. Among the topics are stability theory, box girders, composite columns and structural systems, circular tubes and shells, members with elastic lateral restraints, stability under seismic loading, and analyzing stability using the finite element method. Annotation ©2010 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR ()