This comprehensive text more than meets the demand within the sign industry for a book on the structural engineering of signs. Sign companies, structural engineers and public agencies charged with regulating building construction will all benefit from the detailed contents: engineering perspective, analysis, practices, history; load calculations for signs exposed to all types of environmental conditions; freestanding sign structures, load effects, resultants and columns; connections, structural bolts and welds, column splices, base plates and anchor bolts; footings for sign columns, soils, structural concrete, pier and spread footings; internal sign cabinet frames, cantilever arms and torsion beams; building signs, wall sign anchorage, wooden post signs; computer aided engineering, spreadsheets, and finite element analysis. The book also includes the fundamental mathematics for readers not already familiar with engineering calculations. With hundreds of figures, tables and equations, Engineering Sign Structures has become the standard reference for both the sign and structural engineering industries.
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Benjamin Jones, PE, is a third-generation structural engineer. His grandfather may have been the first engineer to seriously consider sign structures. Jones was a Vice President and Chief Engineer for Young Electric Sign Company, one of the largest sign companies in the world, and responsible for many of the megalightic sign structures of Las Vegas and other cities.
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An absolute "must have" text for sign designers,
By Timothy J. Cummings, P.E. (cent@interserv.com) (Nashville, Tennessee) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Engineering Sign Structures: An Introduction to Analysis and Design (Hardcover)
As a registered engineer with 35 years in the sign industry, I find Dr. Jones book to be without equal within the industry. Taking a complex subject and reducing it to understandable concepts, he has contributed greatly to improved safety and functionality for sign builders and sign users. This text would also be excellent for any design or structural engineer in that it approaches some unique design difficulties with a simple, yet effective approach to engineering. The accompanying spreadsheets which are offered on-line for downloading help the reader to master the concepts presented.
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First comprehensive guide to basic sign engineering.,
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This review is from: Engineering Sign Structures: An Introduction to Analysis and Design (Hardcover)
Finally the sign building industry is beginning to establish some standards. This long overdue book on the basics of engineering sign structures (mainly freestanding signs) covers all the pertinent loads, sign columns, footings, connections, and even discusses up-to-date software techniques and offers some simple spreadsheet files for engineering sign poles and footings. A must for everyone working in the industry.
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Excellent review of engineering considerations for all types of sign types. Many examples included. Also reference to an excellent Excel program fully explained.
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