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Steel Detailers' Manual

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The basic things, which generally neglected by the Detailer, are explained well.

The typical conn. details & the most useful details are presented with the sketches.

The dimensions, which we can't always keep in our brains, are tabulated very well.

Like this there are so many to describe....

This book is packed with useful information on structural steel detailing. The authors have taken their time to compile all of the various elements of structural steel detailing, from welding, bolting and corrosion detailing, to lots of very useful tables and worked examples.

But there are two important points to note. Firstly, the authors are British, and thus all of the standards referenced throughout the book are based on British and European standards. Those of you, like me, who are far more familiar with American standards will need to do some extra homework looking up the American equivalents of the British/European nomenclature used throughout the manual. Secondly, given the wealth of information covered in this manual, it should have been at least fifty pages longer. The editing of this book is sometimes very choppy, and it does give the impression that the authors were compelled to edit some topics down to a bare minimum, leaving them with no choice but to try to pack as much useful information as possible into as few paragraphs as possible.

Overall, despite the relatively high sticker price for a paperback book that is only 167 pages long, this manual does a fine job covering detailing principles. I would definitely recommend it to any technician/engineer involved with structural steel.

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