Название: Aluminium Design and
Construction
Автор: John Dwight
Издательство: CRC Press
Год: 1999
ISBN: 0419157107
Формат: pdf
Страниц: 320
Размер: 13,1 mb
Язык: English

Aluminium is easily the second most important structural metal, yet few designers seem to know much about it. Since the 1940s, as aluminium rapidly became more important, engineers have been slow to investigate what it has to offer and how to design with it. Aluminium is hardly mentioned in university courses. This book is a contribution to an educational process that still seems to be needed.

The object of this book is to provide a conversion course for engineers already familiar with steel, In fact, structural aluminium, a strong ductile metal, has much similarity to steel and design procedures are not very different. Chapters 1-4 give general information about aluminium and aluminium products, Chapter 4, with its coverage of the thorny subject of the alloys, being particularly important. The rest of the book (Chapters 5-12) provides rules for making structural calculations and the reasoning that lies behind them. The treatment is mainly aimed at the construction industry.