Download PDF Foundation and Anchor Design Guide for Metal Building Systems Alexander Newman 9780071766357 Books

Product details Paperback 320 pages Publisher McGraw-Hill Education; 1 edition (October 9, 2012) Language English ISBN-10 0071766359

Foundation and Anchor Design Guide for Metal Building Systems Alexander Newman 9780071766357 Books Reviews

• I took a foundation design course taught by Alexander Newman in 2008. At the time, his Metal Building Systems book was a bit out of date. He had a course workbook that contained newer information, but the material was still in draft and some of it handwritten. I just bought this new edition of his book, and find it to be superb. The examples he had in the 2008 workshop are now well documented and easy to follow.
  
  You can also apply his design principles to other types of building structures.
• This book provides a good overview but is in no way a replacement for the building code or ACI. In particular, the design examples cite code provisions that are applicable only non-seismically active areas.
• Found this to be a very well written / easily understandable reference. Some of the calculations took some time to sort through because I hadn't seen the equations for a while, but the issue was my lack of familiarity with the subject matter, not the presentation of the information. The only thing that would have made it easier for me would have been if the sample problems would have been in MathCAD so that you could see the unit conversions as they happened vice backing into them using the text/numbers provided. As you see, I still rate it a 5-star reference and will keep it handy on my bookshelf of reference materials.
• This book has been very helpful with foundation design. the current go to manual.
• Excellent Design guide. Although an older Code edition, nevertheless helpful as a Design Guide.
• Great product!
• Very Good
• Best book out there for MBS, all you ever wanted to know about foundations for them