Structural Engineering Art and Appoximation

'It is better to be roughly right than precisely wrong.' John Maynard Keynes

September 2017 - 4th Edition with added Foundation Design chapter....

Engineering Structures is mostly formally taught in a lecture room with little time devoted to real examples. On graduation an engineer has to cope with turning this eagerly acquired knowledge into reality.

To make sense of this a designer needs to be able to test their ideas with a simple set of tools which involve little more than pen, paper and calculator. Architects often wonder if there is an easier way to evaluate alternative structural solutions in their designs.
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