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Calcul des charpentes d'acier, Tome II

Ce volume est le deuxième de trois tomes traitant du calcul des charpentes d’acier, dont le premier avait paru en 2003. Le contenu du tome II se prête bien à des cours universitaires de cycles supérieurs et constitue un outil de référence unique pour les praticiens oeuvrant dans le domaine de l’ingénierie des structures.

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Handbook of Steel Construction -- Ninth Edition

This Ninth Edition, containing detailed information for the design and detailing of structural steel in SI metric units, has been updated to S16-01/S16S1-05 and more.

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Limit States Design in Structural Steel

The Eighth Edition reflects significant changes that have been made in the 2005 National Building Code of Canada. Additional design examples have been added to Chapter 8 to illustrate various analysis procedures for multi-storey frames and to Chapter 9 to illustrate the use of weld symbols and to emphasize some design aspects of rigid beam-to-column moment connections.

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Calcul des charpentes d'acier, Tome I

Ce volume est le premier de trois tomes traitant du calcul des charpentes d'acier. Le premier tome est surtout destiné à la formation de premier cycle, alors que les deuxième et troisième sont plus adaptés aux études supérieures.

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Crane-Supporting Steel Structures: Design Guide

Second Edition
This guide fills a long standing need for a technical guide for the design and construction of crane-supporting steel structures that is compatible with Canadian codes and standards written in Limit States format.

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Fire Facts for Steel Buildings

An introductory primer and objective general reference on fire safety issues in a convenient question and answer format. Provides review of past building fire incidents, building code requirements, fire resistance testing, fire resistant design, and post-fire repair of structures.

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Floor Vibrations Due to Human Activity

This Design Guide provides basic principles and simple analytical tools to evaluate steel framed floor systems and footbridges for vibration serviceability due to human activity and provides guidance on developing remedial measures for problem floors.

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Guide to Stability Design Criteria For Metal Structures

This book provides the background to many of the requirements of CAN/CSA S16-09 for axially loaded members, lateral-torsional buckling of beams, asymmetric sections in bending or in compression as well as topics such as frame stability and cantilever beams.

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Hollow Structural Section: Connections and Trusses - A Design Guide

This Second Edition of the 1992 hardcover volume is an international state-of-the-art compilation of design, fabrication and welding information on connections involving HSS members. Failure modes, design charts, worked examples, full truss designs, welding details, fabrication considerations for common and special HSS connections are discussed in 13 chapters. A must for any structural designer or fabricator dealing with HSS.

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Moment Connections for Seismic Applications

This CISC publication concentrates on the design criteria for some of the beam-to-column connections provided in FEMA 350 'Recommended Seismic Design Criteria for New Steel Moment-Frame Buildings' (FEMA 2000a).

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Standardized Shear Connections

This publication lists the capacities of representative simple shear connections and, when used with specific beams, lists the applicable span ranges.

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Boulons à haute résistance dans les ouvrages de génie civil

Le but de cette publication est d’aider les ingénieurs à mieux comprendre le comportement des boulons de construction à haute résistance dans les charpentes, leur installation et les exigences relatives à leur inspection.

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High Strength Bolting for Canadian Engineers

The purpose of the publication is to provide engineers with an understanding of how high-strength bolts work in structures, how they are installed, and the requirements for inspection.

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Welding for Design Engineers

This publication encompasses the educational materials developed during the past five decades and specifically directs it toward civil engineering applications.  It is useful both as a primer for design engineers who are searching for welding knowledge, and as an important source book for welding information.

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Ductile Design of Steel Structures

This book provides considerable insight into the design of steel structures for ductile behaviour. the experience of real structures in recent significant seismic events at Nothridge and Kobe requires the structural engineer, detailer, and steel fabricator to be better informed.

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Design and Construction of Composite Floor Systems

This book is a unique review of steel-concrete composite floor systems comprised of deck-slabs, composite beams, girders, trusses, and stub-girders.

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Handbook of Steel Construction – 10th Edition

The 10th Edition contains detailed information for the design and detailing of structural steel in SI metric units. It has been updated to CSA S16-09 and more.

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