Aluminum Structures: A Guide to Their Specifications and Design, 2nd Edition

Aluminum Structures: A Guide to Their Specifications and Design, 2nd Edition covers a wide range of important topics that will demonstrate how strong, lightweight, corrosion resistant aluminum is able to be utilized for many different design possibilities. This is an informative resource for all engineering and architecture professionals.

This book provides quick reference tables for all design calculations and contains examples of recently built aluminum structures from buildings and bridges. The book also features a comparison of aluminum to other structural materials, particularly steel. This text is 544 pages.

Topics covered include:

• Aluminum structural design for columns, beams, tension members.
• Structural properties of aluminum alloys.
• Welding and mechanical connections.
• Extruding and other fabrication techniques.
• Testing and inspection.
• Aluminum structural systems, including composite members, space frames, plate structures.
• Resistance and load factor design.
• Recent developments within the aluminum structure industry.

Aluminum Structures: A Guide to Their Specifications and Design, 2nd Edition - Table of Contents:

• Preface to the 1st Edition
• Preface to the 2nd Edition
• Part I: Introduction
  • What's in this Book?
  • What is Aluminum?
  • Working with Aluminum
• Part II: Structural Behavior Of Aluminum
  • Material Properties for Design
  • Explanation of the Aluminum Specification
  • Orientation to the Aluminum Specification
• Part III: Design Checks For Structural Components
  • Structural Members
  • Connections
  • Special Topics
• Part IV: Design Of Structural Systems
  • Structural Systems Built with Aluminum
• Part V: Load And Resistance Factor Design
  • Load and Resistance Factor Design
• Appendix A: Pre-1954 Wrought Alloy Designations
• Appendix B: Section Properties of Common Aluminum Shapes
• Appendix C: Minimum Mechanical Properties of Aluminum Alloys
• Appendix D: Allowable Stresses for Elements of Common Aluminum Shapes
• Appendix E: LRFD Design Stresses for Elements of Common Aluminum Shapes
• Appendix F: Column Buckling Allowable Stresses
• Appendix G: Summary of the Aluminum Specification Design Provisions for Columns and Beams
• Cross Reference to the Aluminum Specification
• Appendix I: LRFD Design Stresses for Various Alloys
• Appendix J: Other Aluminum Structural Design Specifications
• Appendix K: Buckling Constants
• Appendix L: Metric Conversions
• Appendix M: Statistics
• Appendix N: Technical Organizations
• Glossary
• References
• Index