This
handbook presents a comprehensive collection of civil engineering calculation
procedures useful to practicing civil engineers, surveyors, structural
designers, drafters, candidates for professional engineering licenses, and
students. Engineers in other disciplines—mechanical, electrical, chemical,
environmental, etc.—will also find this handbook useful for making occasional
calculations outside their normal field of specialty.
Each
calculation procedure presented in this handbook gives numbered steps for
performing the calculation, along with a numerical example illustrating the
important concepts in the procedure. Many procedures include “Related
Calculations” comments, which expand the application of the computation method
presented. All calculation procedures in this handbook use both the USCS
(United States Customary System) and the SI (System
International) for numerical units. Hence, the calculation procedures presented
are useful to engineers throughout the world.
Major
calculation procedures presented in this handbook include stress and strain,
flexural analysis, deflection of beams, statically indeterminate structures,
steel beams and columns, riveted and welded connections, composite members,
plate girders, load and resistance factor design method (LRFD) for structural
steel design, plastic design of steel structures, reinforced and pre-stressed
concrete engineering and design, surveying, route design, highway bridges,
timber engineering, soil mechanics, fluid mechanics, pumps, piping, water
supply and water treatment, wastewater treatment and disposal, hydro power, and
engineering economics.
Each
section of this handbook is designed to furnish comprehensive coverage of the
topics in it. Where there are major subtopics within a section, the section is
divided into parts to permit in-depth coverage of each subtopic.
Civil
engineers design buildings, bridges, highways, airports, water supply, sewage
treatment, and a variety of other key structures and facilities throughout the
world. Because of the importance of such structures and facilities to the
civilized world, civil engineers have long needed a handbook that would
simplify and speed their daily design calculations. This handbook provides an
answer to that need.
With
so many changes “on the drawing board,” engineers and designers are seeking
ways to include the changes in their current and future designs of buildings,
bridges, and other structures. This second edition includes many of the
proposed changes so that designers can include them in their thinking and
calculations. Several new calculation procedures for prestressed concrete
members are presented in Section 5. These calculation procedures will be
especially helpful to engineers designing for the future. And this leads us to consideration
of the use of computer programs for civil engineering design work of all types.
While there are computer programs that help the civil engineer with a variety
of engineering calculations, such programs are highly specialized and do not
have the breadth of coverage this handbook provides. Further, such computer
programs are usually expensive. Because of their high cost, these computer
programs can be justified only when a civil engineer makes a number of
repetitive calculations on almost a daily basis.
In
contrast, this handbook can be used in the office, field, drafting room, or
laboratory. It provides industry-wide coverage in a convenient and affordable
package. As such, this handbook fills a long-existing need felt by civil
engineers worldwide.
In
contrast, civil engineers using civil-engineering computer programs often find
data-entry time requirements are excessive for quick one-off-type calculations.
When laptop computer and perform the necessary steps to obtain the solution
desired. But where repetitive calculations are required, a purchased computer
program will save time and energy in the usual medium-size or large
civil-engineering design office. Small civil-engineering offices generally
resort to manual calculation for even repetitive procedures because the
investment for one or more major calculation programs is difficult to justify
in economic terms.
Even
when purchased computer programs are extensively used, careful civil engineers
still insist on manually checking results on a random basis to be certain the
program is accurate. This checking can be speeded by any of the calculation
procedures given in this handbook. Many civil engineers remark to the author
that they feel safer, knowing they have manually verified the computer results
on a spot-check basis.
With
liability for civil-engineering designs extending beyond the lifetime of the
designer, every civil engineer seeks the “security blanket’’ provided by manual
verification of the results furnished by a computer program run on a desktop,
laptop, or workstation computer. This handbook gives the tools needed for
manual verification of some 2,000 civil-engineering calculation procedures.
Each
section in this handbook is written by one or more experienced professional
engineers who is a specialist in the field covered. The contributors draw on
their wide experience in their field to give each calculation procedure an
in-depth coverage of its topic. So the person using the procedure gets
step-by-step instructions for making the calculation plus background
information on the subject that is the topic of the procedure.
And
because the handbook is designed for worldwide use, both earlier, and more
modern, topics are covered. For example, the handbook includes concise coverage
of riveted girders, columns, and connections.
While
today’s civil engineer may say that riveted construction is a method long past
its prime, there are millions of existing structures worldwide that were built
using rivets. So when a civil engineer is called on to expand, rehabilitate, or
tear down such a structure, he or she must be able to analyze the riveted
portions of the structure. This handbook provides that capability in a
convenient and concise form.
In
the realm of modern design techniques, the load and resistance factor method
(LRFD) is covered with more than ten calculation procedures showing its use in
various design situations. The LRFD method is ultimately expected to replace
the well-known and widely used allowable stress design (ASD) method for structural
steel building frameworks. In today’s design world many civil engineers are
learning the advantages of the LRFD method and growing to prefer it over the
ASD method.
Also
included in this handbook is a comprehensive section titled “How to Use This Handbook?”
It details the variety of ways a civil engineer can use this handbook in his or
her daily engineering work. Included as part of this section are steps showing
the civil engineer how to construct a private list of SI conversion factors for
the specific work the engineer specializes in.
The
step-by-step practical and
applied calculation procedures in this handbook
are arranged so they can be followed by anyone with an engineering or
scientific background. Each worked-out procedure presents fully
explained and illustrated steps for solving similar problems in
civil-engineering design, research, field, academic, or license-examination
situations. For any applied problem, all the civil engineer need do is place his
or her calculation sheets alongside this handbook and follow the step-by-step
procedure line for line to obtain the desired solution for the actual real-life
problem. By following the calculation procedures in this handbook, the civil
engineer, scientist, or technician will obtain accurate results in minimum time
with least effort. And the approaches and solutions presented are modern
throughout.
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