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Aluminum is easily the second most important structural metal, yet few designers seem to know much about it. Since 1940s, as aluminum rapidly became more important, engineers have been slow to investigate what it has to offer and how to design it. Aluminum 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 aluminum, a strong ductile metal, has much similarity to steel and design procedures are not very different. Chapters 1-4 give general information about aluminum and aluminum products, Chapter 4, with its coverage of the thorny subjectof 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.

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First published 1999 by E & FN Spon, an imprint of Routledge
11 New Fetter Lane, London EC4P 4EE
This edition published in the Taylor & Francis e-Library, 2002.
Simultaneously published in the USA and Canada
by Routledge 29 West 35th Street, New York, NY 10001

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.
Weight saving is more important in aluminium than in steel, because of the higher metal cost. More accurate design calculations are therefore called for. Critical areas in aluminium include buckling, deflection, weld strength and fatigue. Other aspects which do not arise at all in steel are the use of extruded sections, heat-affected zone (HAZ) softening at welds and adhesive bonding. This book covers these fully.
The aim had been to follow the design rules in British Standard BS.8118 (Structural Use of Aluminium), one of the first codes to be written in limit state format, and much of the book in fact does this. However, there are some areas where the writer feels that the British Standards approach is other than ideal, and for these the book provides alternative rules which are simpler, more correct or more economical.
Such areas include limiting design stresses, HAZ softening, local buckling and asymmetric bending. A further feature is the inclusion of Chapter 10, which explains how to obtain the section properties of complex extruded shapes, including torsional properties. At the time of writing (1998) a draft version has appeared of the new aluminium Eurocode (EC9), which will in time supersede the various national codes. This document is referred to in the book.

ISBN 0 419 15710 7 (Print Edition)
ISBN 0-203-02819-8 Master e-book ISBN
ISBN 0-203-13449-4 (Glassbook Format)

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ISBN: 0419157107
Author: J. B. Dwight
Publisher: Brunner-Routledge
Edition: (April, 1999)
Hardcover: 295 pages

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