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Pavement Analysis And Design
by Yang H. Huang
A textbook based on the author's course for seniors and graduate students at the U. of Kentucky. The content is limited to the structural analysis and design of highway pavements and covers essentially the mechanistic-empirical design procedures rather than the purely empirical methods.

Design of Building Trusses
by James Ambrose (Author)
A practical, up-to-date introduction on truss analysis, application and design. Describes the influence of trusses on design development as well as the means for design and detailing of truss construction utilizing contemporary building technologies. Illustrations include both historical and recent...

Tall Building Structures
by Bryan Stafford Smith Analyzes the behavior of different forms of structures, including frame, shear wall, tubular, core, and outrigger braced systems. Introductory chapters discuss the forces to which structures are subjected, design criteria, and various structural skyscraper forms which have developed over the years.

The Art of Construction
by Saralinda Hooker
The Art of Construction outlines the basic principles necessary to build bridges, skyscrapers, and other architectural structures. Projects that demonstrate how these principles keep the designs from falling are given.

Shaping Structures
by Waclaw Zalewski

An engineer and an architect team up to present a synthesis of the creative and technical aspects of statics, explicate its principles, describe its application to the task of finding good form for structures.

Steel, Concrete, and Composite Design of Tall Buildings
by Bungale S. Taranath
A handbook for structural engineers and architects providing practical information on all aspects, including wind effects, seismic design, and various lateral and gravity systems. Includes the latest building codes, recent retrofits in light of earthquakes in Japan and California.

Structural Renovation of Buildings
by Alexander Newman
Massachusetts-based structural engineer Newman offers others in the field guidance for a type of job that they generally hate, for which little professional literature is available, and that design schools and textbooks tend to ignore.

Structural Analysis of Historic Buildings
by J. Stanley Rabun
Structural Analysis of Historic Buildings offers the most' complete, detailed, and authentic data available on the materials, calculation methods, and design techniques used by architects and engineers of the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.

Elementary Structures for Architects and Builders (4th Edition) by Ronald E. Shaeffer
A beginning text for students of architecture, building construction, and related technologies, for a first course in structures.

Building Structures, 2nd Edition
by James Ambrose
Revised edition of a comprehensive source for study of the general topic of building structures, primarily intended to serve as a resource for courses on the topic in architecture schools and as a review for candidates for the examination of architectural registration.