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Engineering Sign Structures: An Introduction to Analysis and Design

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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.

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.

Excellent review of engineering considerations for all types of sign types. Many examples included. Also reference to an excellent Excel program fully explained.

Excellent. Informative. A Must Buy. This Publication has become a Major Reference in our Fabrication and Planning Department.

As a structural engineer, the only type of person who should be allowed to design significant sign structures, I find the book very disappointing. It explains concepts like bending moment and torsion that a fisrt-year engineering student should know, except that any student will tell you it's wrong to say "torsion is a form of shear". The book deals with a subject of interest to practicing engineers (not to students) but as though they know nothing.It is aimed at a non-existing market segment. Dangerously, it does not deal with subjects like metal fatigue.