Comments on: 5 Books on Every Engineer’s Desk http://www.beingbrunel.com/5-books-on-every-engineers-desk/ The Civil Engineering Blog Tue, 04 Apr 2017 18:43:18 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=4.7.5 By: thomasmichaelwallace http://www.beingbrunel.com/5-books-on-every-engineers-desk/#comment-295 Tue, 08 Apr 2014 12:31:05 +0000 http://www.beingbrunel.com/?p=1108#comment-295 Indeed- any recommendations on the Highways/Drainage front. I’ve found those two disciplines to be very well documented by their codes of practice/standards in a way that (perhaps) geotechnical/structural approaches aren’t. The DMRB (UK Highways) is very prescriptive and free (which I think is great), and the SUDS Manual for drainage, although maybe a bit longer than it really needs to be (!) has always been helpful.

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By: Tom http://www.beingbrunel.com/5-books-on-every-engineers-desk/#comment-294 Tue, 08 Apr 2014 11:46:43 +0000 http://www.beingbrunel.com/?p=1108#comment-294 These are great books for an engineer with a structures bias, but what about highways engineers or drainage engineers etc etc………Such a vast industry can’t really be categorised by 5 books.

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By: thomasmichaelwallace http://www.beingbrunel.com/5-books-on-every-engineers-desk/#comment-285 Sat, 05 Apr 2014 13:06:57 +0000 http://www.beingbrunel.com/?p=1108#comment-285 Although my German isn’t fantastic, I’ve just had a look at it and it seems pretty impressive; like the ‘red’ (structural engineers hand-) book, but significantly beefed up.

I wonder if there’s a translation?

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By: Paco http://www.beingbrunel.com/5-books-on-every-engineers-desk/#comment-283 Wed, 02 Apr 2014 20:57:26 +0000 http://www.beingbrunel.com/?p=1108#comment-283 Every single German engineer would call up “Tabellen fur Bauingenieure”, by Schneider. It has every single formula you could need

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By: thomasmichaelwallace http://www.beingbrunel.com/5-books-on-every-engineers-desk/#comment-260 Wed, 19 Feb 2014 13:55:31 +0000 http://www.beingbrunel.com/?p=1108#comment-260 You may or may not be able to find that for free on the internet.
Which, of course, is not a practice I would condone…

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By: Peter http://www.beingbrunel.com/5-books-on-every-engineers-desk/#comment-259 Sun, 16 Feb 2014 19:35:11 +0000 http://www.beingbrunel.com/?p=1108#comment-259 I’d definitely recommend:

Designer Guides to EN 1993-2 and 1992-2.

Really well explained guides with lots of good examples for grads. Definitely worth the £80 or so for each one.

Just wanted to add a point for the grillage/FEA debate (from the perspective of a FEA nerd). Although FEA models for typical prestressed concrete bridges/composite steel-concrete arrangements are definitely much more intuitive to setup, I definitely prefer grillage models because the post-processing is infinitely simpler. I find extracting results from FEA models to be so cumbersome, as you have to use shell-slicing and a lot of copy and pasting to spreadsheets to get design forces/moments out of. I’d be interested though to find some designs which have been analysed using both methods to see how much both approaches differ.

However saying that theres no excuse imo for not setting up an FE model for determining LTB moments during erection and concreting as the loading is very simple and will result in a much more economical estimate of Mcr than the BS5400 BEF method.

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By: Structural Diagrams Online | Being Brunel http://www.beingbrunel.com/5-books-on-every-engineers-desk/#comment-243 Sun, 19 Jan 2014 22:11:05 +0000 http://www.beingbrunel.com/?p=1108#comment-243 […] I’ve been having some fun prototyping a way of saving the world from having to pull out the Structural/Steel Designer’s Handbook every time they’re faced with something too easy to model, but more complex than […]

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By: stephen gibson http://www.beingbrunel.com/5-books-on-every-engineers-desk/#comment-155 Wed, 07 Aug 2013 14:21:02 +0000 http://www.beingbrunel.com/?p=1108#comment-155 May I suggest “Urban Drainage” by David Butler and John W.Davies (SPON TEXT)

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By: thomasmichaelwallace http://www.beingbrunel.com/5-books-on-every-engineers-desk/#comment-142 Wed, 17 Jul 2013 19:00:17 +0000 http://www.beingbrunel.com/?p=1108#comment-142 Yup- I even have that on my desk at work; in fact, I tend to use that in preference to the Structural Designer’s Pocket book, but I seem to be in the minority there…

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By: Osondu Okeugo http://www.beingbrunel.com/5-books-on-every-engineers-desk/#comment-141 Tue, 16 Jul 2013 09:07:27 +0000 http://www.beingbrunel.com/?p=1108#comment-141 good selection….and you missed
Steel Designer’s Manual by The Steel Construction Institute.
Edited by Buick Davison & Graham W. Owens

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