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Designing with Structural Steel A Guide for Architects
Alford Johnson
American Institute of Steel Construction, Inc.
2nd edition, 2002
ISBN 1564240525
PDF 2.3 MB
374 pages


The purpose of this Guide is to provide architects with the tools needed to feel more comfortable and confident working with structural steel in building projects. With a greater understanding of the characteristics and inherent benefits of structural steel, architects will be prepared to better utilize steel as a framing material. Some of the strengths structural steel offers in building design is high resiliency and performance under harsh and difficult conditions, i.e., earthquakes and hurricanes. Steel offers the ability to span great distances with slenderness and grace. Steel can be shaped to achieve curved forms and goes up quickly to meet tough construction schedules in almost any weather condition. Steel can be easily modified in the future to satisfy changing requirements.




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‪Design with Structural Steel - A Guide for Architects‬

The purpose of this Guide is to provide architects with the tools needed to feel more comfortable and confident
working with structural steel in building projects. With a greater understanding of the characteristics and inherent
benefits of structural steel, architects will be prepared to better utilize steel as a framing material. Some of
the strengths structural steel offers in building design is high resiliency and performance under harsh and difficult
conditions, i.e., earthquakes and hurricanes. Steel offers the ability to span great distances with slenderness and
grace. Steel can be shaped to achieve curved forms and goes up quickly to meet tough construction schedules
in almost any weather condition. Steel can be easily modified in the future to satisfy changing requirements. And
with virtually all structural steel produced in the United States today made from recycled cars and other steel products,
steel offers environmental sustainability for the future.
This Guide was created in response to research gathered by the American Institute of Steel Construction's (AISC)
regional engineering staff through focus group meetings with owners, engineers, architects, construction managers
and contractors throughout the United States. The purpose of this research was to determine how steelframed
building projects could be completed more economically and in less time, while still maintaining high levels
of quality. To find the regional engineer in your area, visit the AISC website at www.aisc.org.
One of the findings of these focus groups was that architects were eager for more knowledge of how to incorporate
structural steel into building design. In response to this need, AISC set out to create a guidebook for architects
that would provide an understanding of the structural systems, material properties and design details for
structural steel. To that end industry experts from all fields—architects, engineers, fabricators and coating specialists—
were assembled to provide the most up-to-date and accurate information on designing in structural
steel.
Designing with Structural Steel: A Guide for Architects, is presented in five sections. The Ideas Section contains
the booklet, Structural Steel Today, showcasing buildings that incorporate structural steel's unique features to create
truly inspiring architectural designs. Also included in this section is a series of project profiles.
The Systems Section explains basic concepts in structural steel design. It is intended to help the architect communicate
more easily with the structural engineer. This section also presents an in-depth discussion of the types
of coating systems available for structural steel for instances where coating protection is needed. The section
also provides information of welding and sizing of beams and columns for purposes of architectural detailing.
The Details Section provides plan details and commentary on the use of structural steel in combination with other
building materials like precast concrete panels, masonry, thin stone veneer panels and limestone. The Materials
Section contains dimensional properties (in both English and metric units), of wide-flange shapes, hollow structural
sections and other sections. The Materials Section also provides architects with additional information needed
for architectural detailing.
The Appendix is divided into three parts. The AISC Code of Standard Practice covers standard communications
through plans, specifications, shop drawings and erection drawings; material, fabrication, and erection tolerances
and quality requirements; contracts; and requirements for architecturally exposed steel. Also provided are
answers to common questions about codes, specifications and other standards applicable to structural steel. The
final part of this section is an information-source-list of names, addresses, phone numbers and website addresses
for industry organizations that can be of service to the building team.
This Guide is meant to be a teaching tool as well as a desk reference on structural steel. It is meant to be a "living
document." To this end it has been published in a three-ring binder to accommodate additions and updated
information to be published in the future.
The editors would like to thank all of those who contributed their time, effort and knowledge in producing a publication
that can be used on a daily basis. We welcome your comments and suggestions for future additions to
the guidebook.

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