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Aluminum structures : a guide to their specifications and design

Title: Aluminum structures : a guide to their specifications and design / by J. Randolph Kissell and Robert L. Ferry.
Author: Kissell, J. Randolph, 1954-
Publication: New York : Wiley, 1995.

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Additional Authors

Ferry, Robert L.

Description

xiv, 417 pages : illustrations; 25 cm

Summary

Despite its unique and enormous advantages, most engineers fail to consider using aluminum, even in structural situations where its strength, light weight, and corrosion resistance should make it the metal of choice. Aluminum Structures: A Guide to Their Specifications and Design offers engineers, designers, and architects a comprehensive guide to designing aluminum structures and, consequently, a rare opportunity to expand their design capabilities quickly.
This book's broad coverage includes the properties of aluminum, its structural performance in beams, columns and members, aluminum fabrication, welding and mechanical connections, and its inspection and testing. Special attention is paid to those features of aluminum that differentiate it from other structural materials, most particularly steel.

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Contents

I. Introduction. 1. What's In This Book? 2. What Is Aluminum? 3. Working With Aluminum -- II. Structural Behavior of Aluminum. 4. Material Properties for Design. 5. Explanation of the Aluminum Specifications. 6. Orientation to the Aluminum Specifications -- III. Design Checks for Structural Components. 7. Structural Members. 8. Connections. 9. Special Provisions -- IV. Design of Structural Systems. 10. Structural Systems Built With Aluminum -- V. Load and Resistance Factor Design. 11. Load and Resistance Factor Design -- App. A Aluminum Extruders -- App. B Section Properties of Common Aluminum Shapes -- App. C Minimum Mechanical Properties of Aluminum Alloys -- App. D Allowable Stresses for Elements of Common Aluminum Shapes -- App. E Design Stresses for Elements of Common Aluminum Shapes -- App. F Column Buckling Allowable Stress -- App. G Summary of the Aluminum Specifications Design Provisions -- App. H Cross Reference to the Specifications for Aluminum Structures.
App. I LRFD Design Stresses for Aluminum.

ISBN

0471053856 (acid-free paper)

LCCN

94044741

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Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries